GO TO SOURCE PUNE, INDIA, September 15, 2002: The 10-day long Ganesha celebrations in Maharashtra are known to affect industrial production in and around Pune due to lack of worker attendance. But, for small businessmen, Ganapati may be another form of Lakshmi (Goddess of Wealth) as they do more business during the ten days than the rest of the year.…
GO TO SOURCE ORISSA, INDIA, September 18, 2002: An exhaustive work covering ancient Indian culture in all aspects: history, geography, religion, myths, beliefs and practices as depicted in the epics and puranas. Based on Motilal Banarsidass’ “The Puranic Encyclopedia,” with thousands of pages of searchable data, stories, definitions and descriptions. The CD contains information on virtually every person, place, or…
GO TO SOURCE USA, September 17, 2002: An HPI reader writes, “Dear Hindu Brother/Sister: Namaste. You may have come to know that the Public Broadcasting Service TV channel is airing a documentary on September 19 under its Wide Angle program titled “Soul of India.” The program extract on PBS website sounds ominously prejudicial to Hindus. Here is the extract: PBS…
Source: Deutsche Press – Agentur WEST JAVA, INDONESIA, September 3, 2002: A Cangkuang villager hunting for termites under a tree discovered a sharp hand-carved stone. Further investigation revealed that the location was the site of an ancient Hindu temple. The site is especially significant as the archeologists are hoping to obtain more information about the Sundanese kingdoms in West Java.…
GO TO SOURCE USA, September 16, 2002: Tamil music, news and information, the popular serials (soaps) that are enjoyed by the Tamil communities throughout Europe, Singapore, Sri Lanka, India and Malaysia and more are now available 24/7 in the United States. A satellite receiver, dish antenna and a $20 monthly fee will deliver TVI to your television. Browsing through the…
GO TO SOURCE JAIPUR, INDIA, September 1, 2002: The expression “fit for a king” comes to mind when it is realized that Lord Krishna has more than 10,000 sets of clothes that the priests of Jaipur’s Govind Devji temple can use to adorn the Lord. Anjan Kumar Goswami, the head priest of the temple, says, “Govinda blesses his devotees with…
GO TO SOURCE PATNA, INDIA, September 4, 2002: Endangered river dolphins are winning a battle for survival in the only sanctuary of its kind in India along a protected stretch of the Ganges river, wildlife officials say. In the last ten years, dolphin numbers have risen to about 100 from 34 in the 60-kilometer-long Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary in Bihar,…
GO TO SOURCE USA, September 15, 2002: Rajiv Malhotra, prolific contributor to www.sulekha.com, gives a provocative look at castism in America. Malhotra’s very long article concludes with the belief that American society has its own caste system. A key difference, he says, is that in India, castism is explicitly codified; whereas in America, social structure by ethnicity or family lineage…
GO TO SOURCE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, September 14, 2002: A California state appellate court ruled Friday that vegans can’t sue for religious discrimination. In the nation’s first known ruling on the issue, the three-judge Court of Appeal panel in Los Angeles threw out a lawsuit by Jerold Friedman, a vegan, who claimed he was denied a job because he refused…
GO TO SOURCE BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, September 12, 2002: Nearly two dozen Muslim businessmen and their families have been performing Ganesha puja for the last 10 years in Bhubaneswar, capital of Orissa. They organize the puja by constructing a huge pandal and installing an idol of Lord Ganesha in keeping with Hindu rituals. “We have formed an organization called the ‘Jawan…