In much of the world, the swastika is often equated to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany – a symbol of hate that evokes the trauma of the Holocaust and the horrors
Sheetal Deo was shocked when she got a letter from her Queens apartment building s co-op board calling her Diwali decoration "offensive" and demanding she take it down.
The equilateral cross with its legs bent at right angles is a millennia-old sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism that represents peace and good fortune.