British Hindus are trying to free the swastika, their faith’s ancient good luck symbol, from its association with Nazism. “What we have decided to do is to reclaim the swastika,” Ramesh Kallidai, head of the 700,000-member Hindu Forum in Britain, told Reuters on Tuesday.
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