Vivekananda Centre UK LONDON, ENGLAND, December 5, 2005: Jay Lakhani of the Vivekananda Centre sends the following report: We are happy with the way the BBC is beginning to portray Hinduism. For example, in its introduction to Hinduism on its Religion-Online website until last week it introduced Hinduism in this negative manner: “It is not a single unified religion and…
iqna.ir KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, November 27, 2005: The Malaysian Prime Minister, Abdullah Badawi, is finding strong support from local religious leaders in the fight against widespread corruption in the country. In an unprecedented initiative, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh leaders unanimously defined corruption as a mortal sin. They have committed themselves to fighting the problem from the pulpit and…
www.npr.org GERMANY, November 30, 2005: A National Public Radio audio report at “source” says that Hindu refugees who escaped from Afghanistan during the Taliban rule were now being deported back forcefully to Afghanistan due to the German government saying things have stabilized in Afghanistan. An older article on life of Hindu refugees in Germany is here. Rahul Yadav writes about…
pd.cpim.org INDIA, December 4, 2005: HPI Note: We share parts of this interesting article from the weekly publication of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), “People’s Democracy.” For those in the West who don’t realize communism is alive and well in India, visit their web site, here. Though datelined December 4, it was written before the California Curriculum Commission meeting…
HPI SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, December 4, 2005: California Hindus breathed a sigh of relief after the December 2 meeting of the State Board of Education Curriculum Commission. The Vedic Foundation (here) and Hindu Education Foundation (here) worked for months through the California Department of Education (CDE) procedures suggesting improvements for the sections of California textbooks that deal with India and Hinduism.…
HPI SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, December 13, 2005: California Hindus were celebrating today their victory in yesterday’s meeting of the State Board of Education Curriculum Commission. The Vedic Foundation (http://www.thevedicfoundation.org/) and Hindu Education Foundation (http://www.hindueducation.org/) worked for months to have changes made to sections of California textbooks that deal with India and Hinduism. Then there was a hasty intervention by a group…
www.telegraph.co.uk PUSHKAR, INDIA, November 30, 2005: Foreign tourists visiting the holy Indian city of Pushkar in the state of Rajasthan have been issued with a strict code of conduct after a Finnish woman caused public outrage when she walked unclothed into a sacred lake. The behavioral guidelines were issued by local magistrates following complaints from locals upset by foreigners who…
www.inform.kz LONDON, ENGLAND, November 15, 2005: Modern humans migrated out of Africa and into India much earlier than once believed, driving older hominids in present-day India to extinction and creating some of the earliest art and architecture, a new study suggests. The research places modern humans in India tens of thousands of years before their arrival in Europe, Kazinform cites…
peacejournalism.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, November 30, 2005: A large crowd of devotees gathered Wednesday at Pasupatinath temple, one of the most important Hindu temples of Nepal, on the occasion of local Balachaturdasi festival, Radio Nepal reported. “The devotees came from across the country and gathered since early morning to mark the festival,” the radio said. Seeds of various grains are sown…
News Report UDUPI, INDIA, November 29, 2005: Udupi Pejawar Mutt Seer Vishvesha Thirtha Swami today called for a consensus in evolving a uniform and single almanac for observing “ekadasi” and other Hindu festivals. Presiding over a two-day state-level seminar on the “Drigganitha” almanac, based on the movement of the sun, moon and eclipses, he pointed out that the people were…