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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…

www.hinduismtoday.com FLORIDA, USA, December 2, 2005: The letter by the Hindu American Foundation to the California State School Board is posted at “source” above as a PDF file. The letter by Suhag Shukla, HAF’s legal counsel, begins: “I am writing to you as Legal Counsel of the Hindu American Foundation, an independent, national organization that represents nearly 2 million Hindu…

HPI SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, November 29, 2005: Attempts to change California’s next set of 6th grade social studies books to put Hinduism in a better and more accurate light suffered some setback as the already approved changes to the books were reviewed by a second group of scholars. This group, led by Prof. Witzel of Harvard University, rejected 29% of the…

newstodaynet.com CHENNAI, INDIA, November 26, 2005: Isha Foundation, in partnership with the Government of Tamil Nadu, has launched a program to provide yoga instruction to the rural students of Tamil Nadu. The program is in line with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals of eradicating poverty, malnutrition and illiteracy in the rural areas, a press release said. The 10-day Isha…

www.newindpress.com BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, November 25, 2005: Will January 2006 bring cheer to the Hindus, Buddhists and Jains of foreign origin by opening the doors of Shri Jagannath Temple along with several other Hindu places of worship, which have so far been out of bounds for them? Well, it just might. For, all those who have a say in the matter…