Source: Sify News WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, September 20, 2002: New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa, will launch a two-year long exhibition on Indian weddings as a way of honoring Indian migration to the country, a museum official said. “Aainaa — Reflections Through Indian Wedding” marks weddings here with photos, talks, dancing and music. Hindu, Sikh and Muslim weddings will all…
GO TO SOURCE AHMEDABAD, INDIA, September 20, 2002: Signs of religious revival are evident, especially with regard to Ganesha festivities. The trend is especially evident in areas affected by the riots earlier this year. Ahmedabad, the Panchmahals, Dahod, Vadodara and areas of North Gujarat, which saw large-scale disturbances earlier this year, have also witnessed a significant rise in the number…
Source: Hindustan Times SHIMLA, INDIA, September 17, 2002: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad yesterday criticized the remarks of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New York that Gujarat riots were a “shame” for the country and said what had happened in the State after the Godhra killings was “not a matter of shame, but a matter of pride.” There were other…
GO TO SOURCE SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, September 19, 2002: Few U.S. employers list the Jewish High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur as employee holidays. The same goes for Ramadan, the most religiously significant time of year for the world’s 1 billion Muslims. But as the workplace has become more racially, ethnically and religiously diverse, firms have tried…
GO TO SOURCE New York, New York, September 15, 2002: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has hailed the verdict of the Supreme Court that the BJP-led NDA government was not “saffronising” education and said it was good the matter came up in the apex court. “Saffronizing” is a term used in a negative sense by the Indian press to mean…
GO TO SOURCE USA, September 18, 2002: IndiaCause issued a press release today which states in part, “Major plans of Anti-Hindu propaganda using PBS program defeated. The program projected the Gujarat riots as genocide and is to be aired tomorrow throughout USA. Last Thursday IndiaCause launched a campaign of protest with PBS. As a result, in two days PBS has…
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.…