SourceGWALIOR, INDIA, September 19, 2004: A unique world record was created when around 15,000 children from 180 schools gathered in Gwalior and performed surya namaskar, “sun salutation,” the famous hatha yoga sequence of postures or asanas. The children performed all the 12 asanas of the surya namaskar taking the salutation count to an astronomical 180,000. The event was organized by…
SourceKATMANDU, NEPAL, September 21, 2004: Thousands rallied for peace in the heart of Nepal’s capital on Tuesday, pleading for an end to the Maoist insurgency that has killed more than 10,000 people in this Himalayan kingdom. Buddhist monks and Hindu priests chanted religious songs while schoolchildren joined artists, teachers, lawyers, doctors, journalists, human rights activists and business executives at the…
SourceRESEDA, CALIFORNIA, September 21, 2004: Efforts by the San Fernando Valley’s largest Hindu congregation to expand its temple have hit a wall of opposition from neighbors, who say the site is woefully short on parking and will bring too much traffic to the residential area. Residents near the Valley Hindu Temple, on Roscoe Boulevard near Rhea Avenue, are fighting the…
SourceHOUSTON,TEXAS, September 22, 2004: A long awaited, off-beat, intense and much anticipated historical film about Indian, European and African indentureship and slavery in British Guiana during the early 1800s, Guiana 1838, is ready for its premiere in New York on September 24-26. The movie, inspired by true events, is written, directed and produced by Rohit Jagessar, a US-based Guyanese, owner…
SourceJERUSALEM, ISRAEL, September 20, 2004: The growing enthusiasm for yoga in Egypt has received a setback with a mufti reportedly issuing an edict declaring it un-Islamic. The edict signed by mufti Ali Gomoa, considered the highest theological authority, says that “yoga is an ascetic Hindu practice that is forbidden for use in any manner — neither for exercise or for…
SourcePISCATAWAY, NEW JERSEY, September 23, 2004: The Educators’ Society for the Heritage of India is holding a conference September 24 to 26 at Rutgers University Busch Campus. According to the press release, “This program is intended to bring together college professors, teachers (K-12), librarians, curriculum writers, special program developers and textbook publishers, as well as students, parents/community members interested about…
SourceJOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, September 13, 2004: More than 5,000 Hindu devotees from all over the world gathered at Lenasia, the huge Indian township south of here, to celebrate the inauguration of the first Swaminarayan Temple in South Africa. More than 200 followers from the US, the UK, Canada, Kenya and Tanzania joined devotees from all over South Africa as a…
SourceDELHI, INDIA, September 20, 2004: Udayan Care (“source” above), is an NGO that is striving hard to work for the cause and betterment of lives of underprivileged children, reads this press release. It goes on: Under its aegis, comes the voluminous Udayan Shalini Fellowship Programme. The genesis of this program has been for giving Fellowships to disadvantaged girls. These girls…
SourceAUSTIN, TEXAS, September 17, 2004: Teaching seminars on “The Greatness of Hinduism,” presenting knowledge about authentic Hinduism at the annual Hindu Students Council retreat, meeting with Congressmen, speaking at youth summer camps, and providing hundreds of people with educational publications were some of the activities of The Vedic Foundation (“source”) this summer, begins this news release. The foundation also traveled…
SourceHYDERABAD, INDIA, September 20, 2004: Two distinguished Indian religious figures, Swami Agnivesh and Asghar Ali Engineer, who have worked unceasingly for social justice and communal harmony for more than two decades, have been selected for the 2004 Right Livelihood Honorary Award, popularly known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” Baron Jakob Von Uexkull, Chairman of the Right Livelihood Awards Foundation, announced…