SourcePLANET EARTH, June 20, 2003: Celestial Music Radio, an internet radio station, is now on the air twenty-four hours a day via your computer. They play an eclectic mix of kirtan, chanting, music and poetry by such celestial musicians as Krishna Das, Bhagavan Das, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Abida Parveen, George Harrison and many more. The station also broadcasts talks…
SourceUDUPI, INDIA, June 17, 2003: The Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education, B.K. Chandrashekar, said on Monday that the Government would take action against teachers who strike students. He was speaking after inaugurating the Kundapur Education Society’s Pre-University College at Kundapur. Prof. Chandrashekar said teachers who used corporal punishment would be dismissed and said it was incumbent upon…
Hartford CourantMIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT, June 16, 2003: More than 50 children who range from ages 4 to 15 fill the Sri Satyanarayana Temple’s downstairs room every Sunday. The Temple’s Sunday school is one of about a half-dozen Sunday schools within a temple in the country, said Jyotish Parekh, president of VHP of America, a religious and cultural organization based in New…
SourceNew Delhi, INDIA, June 18, 2003: Chinese authorities have cleared the way for people from India wishing to undertake the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, officials announced Wednesday. The yatra had been delayed due to concern over SARS. An External Affairs Ministry spokesman said the first batch of 30 persons will go on the pilgrimage next month, followed by nine other batches…
SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, June 17, 2003: It was Fritjof Capra’s “Tao of Physics” that launched Lord Nataraja as a global icon. In his book Mr. Capra wrote the dance of Siva was “the dance of subatomic particles.” He was not the first in portraying Nataraja as a universal metaphor for the interface between science, spirituality, dance and art, but he…
Agence France PresseAHMEDABAD, INDIA, June 13, 2003: A fully-computerized Hindu crematorium has sprung up in the western Indian state of Gujarat with live Internet broadcasts of funerals. Muktidham crematorium’s managers said the facility was set up to enable friends and relations of the deceased in far off places to take part in the ceremony if they were unable to personally…
SourceKUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, June 19, 2003: The Saiva Siddhanta Mandram, Malaysia, in association with 17 Saiva organizations worldwide, is hosting the ninth annual World Saiva Conference, September 26-28, 2003, in Malaysia. “Saivism for Future Generations” is the theme of this year’s conference and their objectives are: to preserve, foster, promote and develop further the Saiva Siddhanta Philosophy and Traditions of…
HPITAMPA, FLORIDA, June 19, 2003: Leaders of the Hindu Community here met with the editors of the Tampa Tribune in a continuing effort to deal with an article (see HPI, June 5, 2003) published in their newspaper called “Voyages into Madness” which cast Hinduism in a very bad light. HPI applauds the intelligent and controlled dealings of the community leaders…
SourceUNITED STATES, June 9, 2003: Did you know meat leftovers from a favorite restaurant may be dinner for a cow? Or that calves, instead of drinking their mothers’ milk, are fed formula made from cows’ blood? These practices, all perfectly legal, have come to light with the discovery last month of North America’s first homegrown case of “mad cow” disease.…
SourcePATIALA, INDIA, June 15, 2003: From having practically no medicines for nearly four years at a stretch, hundreds of Ayurvedic dispensaries across the state will now be supplied Ayurvedic preparations through the state of the art machinery being installed at its only state pharmacy here. Three years after a grant was released by the Center for strengthening state pharmacies, the…