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BALI, INDONESIA, October 8, 2003: Dr. Somvir of the faculty of Udayana University in Bali is an academic, a Hindu missionary and an Indian in love with Indonesia. He says his mission in life is to spread Hindu values, come what may. Somvir is a popular figure in Bali. He hails from Haryana in India and studied at Delhi University. When he married a Balinese lady a year and a half ago, the wedding was solemnized at the residence of the Bali governor, no less. He has been given two hectares of land to start a gurukul, a boarding school modelled on Hindu lines, to cater to some 400 students. The gurukul, to be built in 2004, will teach modern subjects as well as Sanskrit, English and local languages. Somvir has opened a yoga centre at Bali’s Maha Saraswati University. “There is tremendous interest in Hinduism and, in particular, Ramayana in Bali,” Somvir said. So, he is putting together a dictionary of 2,000 words from Bhasa Indonesia and the old Javanese language that owe their origin to Sanskrit.

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