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UNITED KINGDOM, June 1, 2008: The Hindu Voice’s May newsletter is now available online. This month’s edition has informative and provocative pieces that are generating a good deal of online discussion. Several timely and important pieces include a story on Dilip Lakhani, recently appointed the first Hindu tutor at Eton College, Tibet’s recent human rights struggles with the Chinese government and part one of a first person narrative on forced marriage.

There are some interesting ongoing discussions regarding the movie “Love Guru” being released on June 20 and the social role of the Hindu Temple in a community. Readers are encouraged to voice their opinions. As always, do not miss the photo galleries, Hindu resources and their archived editions.

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LAHORE, PAKISTAN May 26: Most students in Pakistan are surprisingly keen to learn about Hinduism, despite the hostility that has prevailed between their country and India in the previous sixty years. According to Dr. Maureen Korp, an art critic and a religious studies scholar based in Canada who received her doctorate from the University of Ottawa, the students in Pakistan were different to the ones she was used to teaching in Canada.

Korp, who is visiting Lahore at the invitation of the Beaconhouse National University (BNU), said she had given an assignment to her students in which they were asked about religions including Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism. “Surprisingly, I found that most students were keen to know about Hinduism.”

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USA, May 31, 2008: The Ramayan Podcast is an episodic reading in English of Sri Ramacharitramanas (The Lake of Exploits of Shri Ram), written by Saint Tulsidasji. The episodes are approximately 30 minutes long and are posted several times a month. Episode 19 is currently in production, and all episodes are available for free. The Ramayan Podcast can be found on iTunes and by clicking on the link above.

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