India angry over Hindu ‘insult’

ANGRY Indian politicians forced parliament to close yesterday and protesters gathered outside a Russian consulate over a Siberian trial calling for one of Hinduism’s holiest books be put on a list of banned literature that includes Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

The case filed by state prosecutors in Tomsk says a translation of the Bhagavad Gita is extremist because it insults non-believers.

“We will not tolerate an insult to Lord Krishna,” Indian members of parliament protested.