toledoblade.com TOLEDO, OHIO, June 3, 2006: More than 100 families are planning to participate in a Hindu spiritual ceremony June 4, 2006, which is designed to uplift the soul and to purify the Earth. “The Yagna, or worship ceremony, will not only disseminate the divine teachings of Indian Vedic culture but also help restore ecological balance,” said Pandit Anant Dixit…
www.tamilnet.com OSLO, NORWAY, June 5, 2006: More than 2,500 Norwegian Tamils assembled at Juni Plassen Victoria Terrasse recently in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where their representatives met Mr. Hilde Haraldstad, Deputy Director, Peace and Reconciliation Section, and Foreign Office Executive Officer Mr. Sondre Bjotveit and handed them an appeal on behalf of the Tamils in Norway. Protest…
us.rediff.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 5, 2006: India is set to be the world’s youngest nation by 2010 and will be the only large country where the earning population is more than those dependent. While India’s median age by 2015 will be 27 from the current 24, that of China will reach 37 from 32. Favorable demographics, along with structural…
www.umassd.edu HOUSTON, TEXAS, June 6, 2006: A conference is scheduled for July 8,9, and 10, 2006 at the University of Houston by the World Association for Vedic Studies (WAVES). The conference theme this time is “Vedic Ideas for Harmony and Peace.” It features talks on a variety of subjects related to Indian history, civilization, science, religion etc. Participants come from…
www.thestar.com WASHINGTON, June 3, 2006: After 9-11 the government of Saudi Arabia was pressured into reviewing what their students were being taught in schools about other religious traditions. The news release says, “A 2004 Saudi royal study group recognized the need for reform after finding that the kingdom’s religious studies curriculum ‘encourages violence toward others, and misguides the pupils into…
video.google.com USA, June 5, 2006: A 39 minute video presentation of the California textbook controversy is available on Google videos at the URL above. It is a narrated powerpoint presentation that is quite thorough.
By Paras Ramoutar TRINIDAD, June 6, 2006: For 37 long years, the East Indian and Muslim communities have been protesting the controversial “Trinity Cross” being given out as Trinidad and Tobago’s premier national award on Independence Day Augsut 31 annually. But it took a High Court Judge, Peter Jamadar, himself a Christian, to tell the black-dominated government led by Prime…
www.divyajivan.org AHMEDABAD, INDIA, June 5, 2006: (HPI note: See our Hinduism Today article on the popular swami here.) Sivananda Ashram, Ahmedabad, is pleased to announce Pujya Swami Adhyatmanandaji’s “Divya Tour” to USA, Canada & UK (June 9, 2006 – August 30, 2006). Yoga, pranayam and meditation sessions in the morning and spiritual discourses in the evening are being organized all…
Press Release UNITED KINGDOM, May 31, 2006: The OM Day program for unity and peace was started in 2000 as a millennium project by Swami Nirliptananda of the London Sevashram Sangha for global Hindu unity. In the same year the Unity forum of the Indogenic Religions was also founded by Swami in association with the Ven Vagiragnana of the London…
www.rediff.com WASHINGTON, DC, June 2, 2006: Thirteen-year-old Katharine Close won the 79th Scripts National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling “ursprache.” Her previous correctly spelled word was “kundalini,” accurately defined as “the yogic force at the base of the spine, which when raised to the head, triggers enlightenment.” Katharine, from New Jersey, spelt a raft of complex and not-so-complex words and…