GO TO SOURCE KATHMANDU, NEPAL, February 22, 2003: The grandson of a Nepali sherpa in the first expedition to scale Mount Everest 50 years ago plans to set up the world’s highest Internet cafe at the mountain’s base camp. Tsering Gyaltsen, whose grandfather, Gyaltsen Sherpa, was in the 1953 team that helped Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach summit,…
Source: Paras Ramoutar PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD, February 27, 2003: The Mere Desh Organization of Trinidad and Tobago has dedicated 2003, to the Classical singers of Trinidad and Tobago and the Father of Hindi Poetry, Sant Kabir. The Organization is inviting all local classical singers throughout the country to enter. The date of the competition is yet to be announced.
GO TO SOURCE UNITED STATES, February 26, 2003: The following statement is issued by the India Development and Relief Fund regarding allegations their funding strategy is designed to encourage hatred and dissension between India’s religious groups. “On November 20, 2002, Sabrang Communications and the Forum of Indian Leftists released a report titled, ‘The Foreign Exchange of Hate’ asserting that the…
GO TO SOURCE GORAKHPUR, INDIA, February 18, 2003: The seventh World Hindu General Assembly which concluded in Gorakhpur, India, has decided to hold the next General Assembly in Birgunj, Nepal. An 11-point proposal including a complete ban on cow slaughter and assistance to Hindu orphans was also passed by the assembly. Some 28 countries, including Nepal, took part in the…
GO TO SOURCE MUMBAI, INDIA, February 14, 2003: Shaida.com has taken their site from cyberspace to a brick and mortar location by holding a swayamvara in the cities of Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata. A swayamvara is a Hindu custom in which a girl chooses her own husband from an assembled group of prospects, though in this case the…
GO TO SOURCE CAMBRIDGE, CANADA, February 26, 2003: The Radha Krishan Temple of Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, is seeking a full-time Hindu priest. The prospective priest must have a good knowledge of Hindi and English. Additionally, it is preferred they have elementary knowledge of Christianity and Islam so they can converse well with Christian Clergymen and Islamic Mullas in the Cambridge…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, February 26, 2003: The Vivekananda Center London in yesterday’s HPI was incorrectly named. Instead of the Vedanta Center London, they are correctly known as the Vivekananda Center London, which is a different organization from London’s Ramakrishna Vedanta Center.
GO TO SOURCE KATGARH, INDIA, February 15, 2003: Dozens of archeologists have fanned out across the northern Indian state of Haryana in the last seven months to look for traces of the Saraswati River. A group of geologists and glaciologists, armed with satellite imagery maps and remote sensing data, are studying rocks, glaciers and sediments in the Himalayas, seeking any…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, February 24, 2003: London’s Vedanta Center is heavily involved in providing input for a series of television shows and public talks around London. A series of four TV programs with ITV have already been recorded and edited and are ready to be aired later this year. Future programs under discussion are a series on science…
GO TO SOURCE UNITED STATES, February 5, 2003: In a recent article on Sulekha, Sankrant Sanu examined Microsoft Encarta’s treatment of Hinduism, Islam and Christianity. He concluded that Encarta’s portrayal of Hinduism was biased and negative in comparison to the more evenhanded and sophisticated treatments granted Islam and Christianity. Sanu’s article prompted a closer at a world religions textbook, Mary…