Rajan Zed, President of Universal Society of Hinduism, delivers a prayer from Sanskrit scriptures before the Idaho Senate on Tuesday  in Boise. The Idaho Senate convened Tuesday with a Hindu prayer for the first time since Idaho acquired statehood in 1890, drawing objections from three lawmakers who refused to attend the invocation. (AP/Statesman photo: Kyle Green)

Those Hindu spirits haunt the halls
and lurk in gangs along the walls;
They sleep upon my office floor
and stand in groups to block my door;
and should  I doze for one short spell
they'll drag me off to Hindu hell.

The Bard of Sherman Avenue

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