www.dnaindia.com KENDRAPARA, INDIA, November 1, 2006: About 1,200 Dalits have threatened to embrace another religion if they are not allowed to enter and worship at the Jagannath temple at Keredagarh. “While Dalits are free to enter temples elsewhere in the district, upper caste people have been debarring us from doing so here,” says Raj Kishore Muduli, leader of the group.…
HPI KAUAI, HAWAII, November 1, 2006. More than a thousand of our HPI subscribers have accounts with yahoo.com. For unknown reasons, yahoo.com started rejecting most of the HPI reports with a “452 Too many recipients” response. As a result, about 70% of the yahoo subscribers no longer get their HPI. We don’t think they blacklisted us, it seems to be…
www.pib.nic.in FIJI, October 20, 2006: Shri Vaylar Ravi, Indian Minister of Overseas Affairs, visited Fiji for the first time in October with a mission of strengthening ties between the two countries. The Indian Diaspora is well established in Fiji and the Minister wanted to catalyze Indo-Fijan relations including growth of ties in higher education training, networking of academic institutions, forging…
www.rediff.com ONTARIO, CANADA, October 12, 2006: History was in the making this year when Diwali was celebrated on October 10 at Queen’s Park, one of the seats for the Ontario Government. Indian Consul-General Satish Mehta spearheaded the event and has been instrumental in advocating India-Ontario relations. Chief guest Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty made the following statements, “It is an honor…
Satinder.Trehan@vhs-net.com LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, October 28, 2006: Ram Swarup, 1920-1998, is considered to be one of the most influential Hindu thinkers of the late 20th century. On Saturday, November 18, 2006, at 7:00 p.m. the first annual Ram Swarup Memorial Lecture will be held in Los Angeles. Dr. Koenraad Elst will deliver the lecture entitled Historicity and Hinduism. To attend,…
sify.com LONDON, ENGLAND, October 29, 2006: All roads for Britain’s new class of super-rich Indians lead to Northwood, a quiet west London suburb that is being transformed into the country’s first millionaires’ row for a single ethnic minority – Asian Indians. Homes worth more than US$1.9 million on Astons Road are being snapped up and then demolished to make way…
news.newamericamedia.org NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, October 29, 2006: Over a year has passed since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, but an area Hindu temple still struggles to repair its damage. The 40-year-old Hindu Temple of Greater New Orleans, once a vibrant meeting point for the area’s nearly 2,000 Indian Americans, lies derelict and empty; its future uncertain. In 2003 — two…
vivekananda@talktalk.net LONDON, ENGLAND, October 27, 2006: The follwoing report was sent by Jay Lakhani of the Hindu Council UK: “We participated at the Foreign Press Association meeting where faith members from Sikhism, Islam and Hinduism debated the issue of so-called “honor killing” (usually, the murder of a female for supposed sexual or marital offenses — see here) with Dr. Gill…
www.crosswalk.com JERUSALEM, ISRAEL, October 28, 2006: More than 200 members of a “lost” Jewish tribe are set to immigrate to Israel next month from northeastern India. The Bnei Menashe (children of Manasseh) were descendants of one of the 10 “lost tribes” of Israel. Beginning 2,700 years ago, 75% of the Jewish nation was exiled and disappeared, becoming known as the…
www.hsus.org WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES, October 28, 2006: Each year in the United States, 10 billion land animals are raised and killed for meat, eggs, and milk (this works out to a staggering 1.14 million animals killed per hour, not counting fish, which are killed in equal number.) Statistically, farm animals comprise 98 percent of all animals in the country…