On January 14, the Samprajña Institute will attend an online meeting in which Joshua DuBois, Excecutive Director of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, will speak to the Hindu Community.

For this event, the Samprajña Institute has submitted two questions that we hope Rev. DuBois will have the opportunity to address at the meeting:

• What is the Obama Administration's position on social conflicts in India centered on religious conversions?
• What role do you see the Hindu community in America playing in the Global War on Terror?

Please write to us if you have any particular views on these questions that we could express if they are discussed.

Regarding the historic interfaith dialog between Christians and Hindus in India, Mumbai, Swami Chidananda Saraswati is quoted as saying, “Apni apni bhakti, parantu sabse badhkar rashtra bhakti.” (Let us love and follow our respective faiths, but keep love of the nation above all.) - (Indian Express). What is interesting about this remark is the emphasis it places on matters of this world rather than matters of the next world, or of moksha.