www.chron.com HOUSTON, TEXAS, October 21, 2006: Like Christmas in the U.S., Diwali in India often involves a month of preparation. There are Diwali sales at stores and decorations to hang at home. A few movies are always marketed for Deepavali release. “It is hard to create the same ambience here in Houston,” Narasiman said. “Because it’s mainly celebrated only in…
Paras Ramoutar TRINIDAD, October 22, 2006: Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister,Patrick Manning, feels that the Hindu festival of Diwali, Saturday October 21, a public holiday, brings the people together. In his annual Diwali message to more than 500,000 East Indians, with about 350,000 of them Hindus, Manning said that while it is the most important religious event of our Hindu…
www.nytimes.com KHORI, INDIA, September 28, 2006: Life for Mr. Patil’s farming family in the remote hilly tribal area 200 miles NE of Mumbai had been relatively the same for hundreds of years until the turbines came. Now while Dilip Pantosh Patil is plowing his fields with a plow powered by oxen, turbines owned by Suzlon Energy are generating energy from…
www.hinducouncil.com.au CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, October 20, 2006: Divali was celebrated at the Federal Parliament House in Canberra on October 16, 2006. The function was jointly hosted by the Hon. Senator Amanda Vanstone, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs and the Hindu Council of Australia, a national body representing all Australian Hindus, and was attended by a number of Senators and Members…
the.honoluluadvertiser.com HONOLULU, HAWAII, October 20, 2006: (HPI note: This article appeared in the Hawaii newspaper, the Honolulu Advertiser, and mentioned Kauai’s Hindu Monastery, home of HPI and Hinduism Today.) Hawai’i has yet to see commune-like groups where one can live a monastic-like contemplative lifestyle, such as Rutba House in Durham, N.C. However, there is an increasing interest in living the…
www.dmyouth.com ONTARIO, CANADA, October 19, 2006: For Hinduism to survive and continue to thrive in Canada for generations to come, there needs to be a renaissance of Hinduism among today’s youth. The Devi Mandir is special in that the youth movement arising out of the Mandir entitled “DM Youth” has been around for two years and has paved the path…
paras_ramoutar@yahoo.com TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, October 20, 2006: “The diffusion of India’s cultural immensity over the vast expanses of Asia and other continents is a glorious epic of human achievement in the domain of thought and its expression in space and time.” This summarized former UNC Senator Suren Capildeo’s feature address at the 20th annual Divali Nagar on October 12, 2006,…
www.london.gov.uk LONDON, ENGLAND, October 19, 2006: Divali was celebrated October 15 in Trafalgar Square, London, by 20,000 people. Organized by the Mayor of London and the Divali in London Committee, chaired by Nitin Palan, the number of celebrants has increased 5,000 each year. Raghav, Hunterz and Kalakaar provided musical entertainment. Groups from the Saraswati Dance Academy, Brahma Kumaris, BAPS Swaminarayan…
info@hindusangam.org.my KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, October 19, 2006: The Malaysia Hindu Sangam sent out the following press release: “The present day life is filled with much stress and tension in a fast-paced, action-orientated life. The arrival of festive season is always most welcome and what more a week-long Deepa-Raya festive holidays! The entire nation will have the opportunity to be with…
inwww.rediff.com WASHINGTON, U.S.A., October 10, 2006: In the past five years immigrants from India have settled in the Washington metropolitan area increasing their population from 70,000 to 107,000. These statistics are from a media report published by the Washington Post. The report further added, “Foreign-born Indians now rival Koreans as the area’s second most populous group. That growth naturally has…