Animal Sacrifice: One brave woman leads the fight for a total end to

From: Hinduism Today | Date: April 30, 1999 | Copyright information


Hinduism Today

04-30-1999

Animal Sacrifice: One brave woman leads the fight for a total end to ritual killing

YOU CAN LOVE HER OR HATE HER, but you can't ignore the lady. Maneka Gandhi, widow of Sanjay, the late Indira Gandhi's assassinated son. will make herself heard, no matter what the odds. So animal lovers thronged Mysore, India, in August, 1998, from all across Karnataka to be inspired by this activist's forceful message of ahimsa, nonviolence, and to cha...

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