GO TO SOURCE BANGALORE, INDIA, September 9: Environmentalists, take heart: the Lalbagh Horticultural Department is planning to employ five expert swimmers to immerse Ganesha idols in water for a nominal fee. The department’s aim is to control reckless immersion of idols, which is causing damage to the Lalbagh lake, Joint Director of the Department of Horticulture, Lalbagh, S. Ashwath says.…
GO TO SOURCE CHENNAI, INDIA, September 10, 2002: The radical group, Hindu Munnani, has asked icon makers not to make statues of Lord Ganesh that show Him wearing a shirt and trousers and not the traditional Indian dhoti. Such icons are popularly called “Baba style” and are selling briskly across Chennai. Munnani claims they would not bring good luck to…
GO TO SOURCE HUBLI, INDIA, September 8, 2002: Immersion of Ganesha’s icons by devotees after a colorful procession has assumed significance in Hubli-Dharwad for two reasons. One, the processions taking icons for immersion have triggered communal clashes between communities in the past. Two, it is the time of year when water becomes crucial. Devotees are already worried about the final…
Source: India Tribune LONDON, ENGLAND, August 31, 2002: Indian restaurants in Britain are currently gripped by an acute shortage of qualified cooks as catering academies prefer to teach Chinese, Japanese, Spanish or Italian specialties, rather than Indian cuisine, which is the most popular in the country. Restaurants are now recruiting candidates from all ethnic groups, plus appealing for more lenient…
GO TO SOURCE GHANA, AFRICA, September 9, 2002: A special puja was held Friday, August 30, 2002, at the Hindu Monastery of Africa headquarters to mark the auspicious occasion of the 10th anniversary Maha Samadhi of Swami Krishnanand Saraswati, former Guru Maha Sannidhanam of the Hindu Monastery of Africa and founder of the Human Service Trust of Mauritius. All the…
Source: Hindu Press International NEW YORK, NEW YORK, September 5, 2002: At a function here Dada J. P. Vaswani was given the Hindu Renaissance Award 2002 as “Hindu of the Year” by Hinduism Today. The award was presented by Lavina Melwani, senior US correspondent for the magazine. In making the presentation, she said, “I am here today on behalf of…
Source: Agence France Presse PARIS, FRANCE, September 9, 2002: An estimated 5,000 people marched through central Paris on Sunday in celebration of the Hindu festival of Ganesh, the God of wisdom and success, officials said. The festival in Paris of Ganesh, the elephant-headed son of Siva, first started in France in 1995. The mostly Tamil Hindu community in France is…
Source: SIFY News NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 25, 2002: As Indian culture has become more popular in the United Kingdom, the influx of Indian vocabulary has become more common. Judy Pearsall, editor of the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English, says, “People are reading Indian authors in English more widely than perhaps they have done before.” The article says, “The new…
GO TO SOURCE September 9, 2002: Excerpt from this very long essay (circa 20,000 words) by Rajiv Malhotra which appears on the Sulekha web site. Rajiv begins by quoting Wendy Doniger, Professor of History of Religions, University of Chicago. Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 November, 1999: Prof. Doniger said to the Inquirer, “The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a…
GO TO SOURCE PUNE, INDIA, September 9, 2002: Prof. G. C. Asnani sends the following request: “We are looking for part-time teachers, students and housewives worldwide, to help us in locating and where possible, themselves providing, through e-mail system, world-wide information on current affairs, recent advances in different branches of science, fine arts, technology, history, Sanskrit, yoga, health, vedic mathematics,…