I'm so sorry that, even as adults, some of us are still able to appreciate and respect the things that brought us joy as children, Kara.

I'm a Hindu who's totally fine with anyone or anything wearing a Bindi. Rajan Zed doesn't speak for all Hindus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy… In countries like India & Pakistan, people who complain that their "religious sentiments are hurt" are usually extremists with a thirst for communal violence. Please…

Actual Hindu woman here and Rajan Zed is full of crap. He promotes this absurd, fundamentalist, Hindu nationalist (India's equivalent of the Christian right) vision of Indian culture that doesn't really correspond to anything I've seen in India itself. Sacred chants and images of gods and goddesses are one thing.…

I have to say it again: this is a NON issue, ladies! There's a contingent of fundamentalist Hindus out there who want to religion-ify Hinduism, and who are waiting to take offense at anything. But it's OK. Hinduism is too massive and diverse and old to be religion-ified. So stick those bindis on your head, go ahead!…