GO TO SOURCE BANGALORE, INDIA, January 21, 2003: Founder of The Art of Living Foundation, Sri Ravishankar, made quite an impression at the World Conference on Spiritual Regeneration and Human Values. He denounced religious conversion as the defamation of one religion in favor of another and proposed instead that different faiths enter into dialogue to find tolerance. He also called…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, January 23, 2003: The National Hindu Students Forum in their nationwide campaign states, “We all have a talent or skill — something to give to British Society. The best way that we can ‘be British’ and contribute to our host community, is by gaining inspiration from our eternal principled Hindu values and retaining our Hindu…
GO TO SOURCE NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES, January 23, 2003: Over 3000 people from around the world are expected to attend The Global Dharma Conference, from July 25th – 27th at the Raritan Exposition and Convention Center, Edison, New Jersey, USA. The three-day conference will feature H.H. Dalai Lama, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Dr. Deepak Chopra, and Dr. V. S.…
Source: Malaysian National News Agency KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, January 19, 2003: While there were a number of Thai Pusam venues around Malaysia, none could rival Batu Caves for it’s size and religious spectacle. Thai Pusam is among the biggest Hindu festivals in Malaysia and throughout the country, fifteen thousand kavadis, 10,000 milk-pot bearers, and hundreds of shaven-head worshippers paid homage…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, January 23, 2003: In a conundrum few have been able to unravel, Britain’s 1.3 million Indians are newly revealed to be doing better than all other community groups, but still remaining poorer than the white mainstream population. “An astonishing 75 per cent of the Indians are in full-time education by the time they are 18…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, January 13, 2003: Curry, curry, and more curry have become the order of the day in the United Kingdom. London alone has almost 1200 Indian restaurants. An Indian dish called Chicken Tikka Masala was declared a national dish by Robin Cook two years ago. One ready-made packet of CTM is picked up every four seconds…
GO TO SOURCE LANHAM, UNITED STATES, January 16, 2003: The Public Broadcasting station recently featured an interview between Deryl Davis, reporter, and various devotees at the Maryland Sri Siva-Vishnu Temple just outside of Washington, D.C. Deryl Davis introduces the Temple as an opportunity for people in the West to experience the world’s most ancient religion right here on American soil…
GO TO SOURCE ASSAM, INDIA, January 13, 2003: Hoping to ease the tension between the local villagers and the elephants, and to promote an appreciation for the pachyderms, a carnival attended by 15,000 people at Kaziranga National Park may have achieved this purpose. The crowds cheered as elephants danced, played football and marched in unison during the two-day festival. Wildlife…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, January 13, 2002: For decades, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has been promoting and spreading the culture and arts of India in its facility. Apparently its efforts have not gone unnoticed as Trinity College of Music has asked the Bhavan to start a course in Indian music at the college in 2004. For Hindu culture this…
GO TO SOURCE TAMIL NADU, INDIA, January 10, 2003: Evidence that the caste system and it perpetuation has been prevalent within the Catholic church in India, has been discovered in various papal documents. Following conversion to Christianity from Hinduism, the Dalits (so called untouchables) were kept separate from the Brahmins in the congregation. In 1623, missionaries requested that the Bull…