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Gods Go Hungry in Food Crisis

Inflation takes bite out of traditional offerings at Indian temples

By Sam Gale Rosen,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 30, 2008 1:13 PM CDT

(Newser) – Skyrocketing food prices have a new victim in India: Hindu deities. Supplicants offer milk and other food at temples where they pray, but with the cost of staples soaring, many are unable even to feed themselves, the Washington Post reports. "If poor people don't...   Read full story »

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