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…
Source: Agence France Presse GUWAHATI, INDIA, December 31, 2002: Hindu villagers in India’s restive northeastern state of Tripura have pledged to fight alleged extortion demands by a Christian separatist group, community leaders said. Militants of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have served extortion notices to hundreds of Hindu tribals and threatened them with death if they do…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, January 11, 2003: For the first time in the history of London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), its Hindu officers have come together to form the Metropolitan Police Hindu Association (MPHA). The MPS has over 200 Hindu staff members. The chairman of MPHA, Mahesh Nandha, told Hindustan Times that there are already 40 people interested and…
GO TO SOURCE NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, January 5, 2003: History will be made in 2006, if everything goes as planned, with the completion of a 3300 foot tall solar tower in the Australian Outback. Conceived in Germany by structural engineers Schlaich Bergerman, the tower has the financial backing of the Australian and New South Wales governments to the tune…