GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, USA, May 25, 2002: Hindus bless all implements or items to be used for daily life, protecting them from bad influences and blessing them in God’s name. This is true of things like homes, cars and motorized vehicles of all types. Emmigration hasn’t hampered the tradition, and every temple in the US is prepared to…
GO TO SOURCE PARIS, FRANCE, March 17, 2003: In Paris more than three months of festivities dedicated to Hindustani classical music from the 14th to the 20th centuries opens this week. It will include concerts, films, talks and a show of rare instruments from north India. Held at the Cite de la Musique from March 19 to June 29, the…
Source: HPI KAUAI, UNITED STATES, March 23, 2003: Prof. R. Vaidyanathan gives his view on “inauspicious Thursday” which led Air India to cancel a Thursday flight out of North East India. He wrote, “I read with interest about people in Guwahathi considering Thursdays as not auspicious. It is not the people of entire North East. This belief is mainly in…
GO TO SOURCE USA, March 23, 2003: Those interested in purusing Kautilya’s Arthashastra may find the complete text at “source” above. Arthashastra is a remarkable treatise on sophisticated government written 2,300 years ago.
GO TO SOURCE WASHINGTON D.C., March 22, 2003: The Indian government has taken “much action” against those behind the Gujarat violence but it was not reflected due to the “agonizingly slow” legal system in the country, US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Christina Rocca has said. “There have been a number of arrests and prosecutions,” she said on…
GO TO SOURCE FOXBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, March 20, 2003: A red powdery substance discovered Monday in a letter by mailroom workers at Invensys prompted a partial evacuation of the facility. With the heightened alert due to the war with Iraq, local firefighters were concerned when responding to a call about an unknown powdery substance at the Invensys mailroom. Deputy Chief Steve…
GO TO SOURCE GUWAHTI, INDIA, March 19, 2003: So many people of north east India have refused to fly on Thursdays, Air India has been forced to change its schedule to Sundays. “It is now official. The flight will be on Sunday,” said an Air India official here yesterday, much to the relief of the travel agents for whom it…
GO TO SOURCE MEHAMDABAD, INDIA, March 14, 2003: All roads seem to lead to Dakor, Kheda district, as pilgrims of various age groups, from one to 75, walk the stretch of road for a “darshan of Ranchhod Rai” (Lord Krishna.) Close to a million people were expected to visit the pilgrimage shrine before the 17th, the Poonam of Holi. Since…
GO TO SOURCEMEHAMDABAD, INDIA, March 14, 2003: All roads seem to lead to Dakor, Kheda district, as pilgrims of various age groups, from one to 75, walk the stretch of road for a “darshan of Ranchhod Rai” (Lord Krishna.) Close to a million people were expected to visit the pilgrimage shrine before the 17th, the Poonam of Holi. Since the…
Source: Canadian PressONTARIO, CANADA, March 15, 2003: Indo-Canadians are being warned that their traditional cooking, heavy on clarified butter and whole-milk yogurt, is bad for their hearts. The issue has become something of a crusade for Edmonton Hindu priest Acharya Shiv Shankar Diwivedi. He’s been seeing too many people in their 40s and 50s suffering heart attacks, and has made…