SourceLONDON, ENGLAND, November 8, 2004: Back home, the festival may still be a few days away but thousands of Indians living in Britain poured into Trafalgar Square here on Sunday evening to celebrate Deepavali with fun, fireworks and food. As the actual festival day falls on a weekday, Indians living here celebrated the occasion Sunday at an open air function…
SourceVANCOUVER, CANADA, October 31, 2004: Devotees of the Lakshmi Narayan temple in Surrey, British Columbia, have been flocking to the temple to hear Shri Charu Chaitanya Ji Maharaj speak about the Hindu scripture Bhagwatam Puran. What is so special about this yoga prodigy is the fact that he is only nine years old. Born in an ashram in the Indian…
SourceSINGAPORE, November 3, 2004: When the Sri Marathadi Muneeswarar temple received a court order initiated by JTC Corporation that the temple would be demolished, devotees reacted. Temple caretaker, Veerappan Ariappthire, tried to persuade the High Court to declare ownership of the land the temple is located on to him. The article says, “But the court threw out Mr Veerappan’s case…
SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, October 20, 2004: Three months ago, Howard Staab learned that he suffered from a life-threatening heart condition and would have to undergo surgery at a cost of up to $200,000 — an impossible sum for the 53-year-old carpenter from Durham, N.C., who has no health insurance. So he outsourced the job to India. Taking his cue from…
SourceNovember 6, 2004: Sarve Samachar was formally launched today online at “source.” Sponsored by the Viraat Hindu Sabha, the site is the first automated Hindu news portal available on the internet, delivering content from over 30 online newspapers, news agency and other sources. The site uses technology similar to Google News to automatically crawl and index fresh content every 30…
SourceUNITED NATIONS, November 5, 2004: Three hundred years from now, the world’s population will have stabilized at about 9 billion and we will look forward to living until age 95. In Japan, that bastion of longevity, people will be hanging around until they’re 106. India, China and the United States will still be the most populous countries on the planet…
SourceUSA, November 8, 2004: Mother sends Light & Blessings for Deepavali. The Divine never gives us more gifts than we can handle at any given time. At this crucial time of challenge for human mind and spirit, the magnificent occasion of Deepavali arrives bringing with it an abundant of reprieve and lightness. Deepavali is the Hindu Festival of Light –…
Hari GaunderAUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, November 7, 2004: It was the first time ever the Hindu Festival of Lights, Deepavali, was celebrated in the New Zealand Parliament, in Wellington on November 2 and the Indians are grateful to the government for recognizing their contributions towards the nation. The Prime Minister, Helen Clark, lit a lamp in the traditional style and created…
SourceNEW DELHI; INDIA; November 2, 2004: Puppeteer Dadi Pudumjee has become the first Indian to perform at NewYork’s legendary La MaMa experimental theatre off Broadway (here). He showed an avant-garde version of the ancient Vikram-Betaal myth — where a king carries a riddle-telling corpse on his shoulders — to the theatre, now a global arts center that was started by…
SourceLONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, November 3, 2004: The banks of the river Thames has yielded many exotic items, including a series of Hindu Gods and Goddesses, some of which could be more than a century old, says this article. The four Deities discovered include Durga, Ganesha, Vishnu and Hanuman. the statues are made of stone or metal. Other discoveries include two…