SourceSINGAPORE, December 15, 2004: (HPI note: This report appeared in the International Herald Tribune.) She was known as the “nightingale of India,” but that scarcely captured what Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi – who died on Saturday at the age of 88 – was all about. Known widely as just “M.S.,” she was the greatest singer of Carnatic music, the South Indian…
SourceBANGALORE, INDIA, December 12, 2004: Madurai Shanmugavadivu “M.S.” Subbulakshmi, an Indian classical singer who mesmerized millions, died late Saturday in the southern city of Madras, a close family friend said. She was 88. She died of a respiratory illness, the friend said Sunday. Born on Sept. 16, 1916, in the southern Indian temple town of Madurai, she recorded her first…
SourceKUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, December 16, 2004: “Kamba Nataka” a dramatized English version book of Kamba Ramayanam by Dr. S.M. Ponniah was released on December 16, 2004, at the K.R. Soma auditorium, Kuala Lumpur, by Minister of Works, Dato Seri S. Samy Vellu. President of Malaysia Hindu Sangam (“source”), Datuk A.Vaithilingam, delivered keynote address. Associate Professor of University Malaya, Mr. Singaravelu,…
SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, December 13, 2004: There are 3,372 languages in India, but only 216 are spoken by a group of 10,000 persons or more, the Rajya Sabha (upper house of parliament) was informed on Monday. As per the Census of India, 1991, there are 1,576 classified and 1,796 unclassified languages, and out of these 10,000 persons or more speak…
SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, December 13, 2004: 13: India ranks a poor 106th among 127 nations in its educational reach, according to Unesco’s Global Monitoring Report for 2005, parliament was informed Monday. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh said the Education for All Development Index of India was 0.658 in the 2003-4 Global…
SourceKANCHEEPURAM, INDIA, December 7, 2004: The Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam of Kancheepuram on Tuesday came out with full-page advertisements in national and regional newspapers seeking to refute allegations that Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati had any hand in the murder of a temple official, Sankararaman. The Shankaracharya is currently in judicial custody in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore Jail in connection with the case. Sankararaman,…
SourceSIEM REAP, CAMBODIA, December 9, 2004: It has been a case of once bitten twice shy for the archaeologists working on the restoration projects at the historic Angkor Wat temple complex here after the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) was criticized for its work a decade ago. Aware of the flak the ASI received for making the Angkor Wat look…
SourceAMRITSAR, PAKISTAN, December 9, 2004: A 91-member party of Hindu pilgrims today crossed over to Pakistan in the Samjhauta Express train to pay obeisance at the Shadani Darbar in Sind province and other shrines in Lahore. The party mainly included pilgrims from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh, which was led by one Satyavarth Shadani. They will return on…
SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, December 9, 2004: (HPI note: We include this article to help people understand why India has had an anti-Hindu tendency since Independence. The country’s first prime minister, Nehru, held a Marxist attitude toward religion.) Jawaharlal Nehru had a word of caution for those mixing religion with politics: it is a kind of self-intoxication which dulls the mind…
SourceKAULA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, December 9, 2004: The Malaysia Hindu Sangam issued the following press release: We have in our midst ideal sons and daughters, who have silently, reverently and patiently, loved and cared for their parents who may have been ill, weak, handicapped or dependent. This could have been for long periods, running into decades. Still these “heroes” and “heroines”…