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,…
GO TO SOURCE NORWALK, CALIFORNIA, September 5, 2002: The Hindu Youth Forum of Southern California successfully organized their first ever Hindu Youth Conference on August 24 at Sanatana Dharma Mandir at Norwalk. This is the first time a conference of its kind held where all the activities were planned and executed by teenagers of the youth forum. A total of…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 4, 2002: Indians are shying away from World Trade Center scrap steel shipped to the country to be recycled, afraid its history makes it “inauspicious.” But it may be more than that — it may be lethal. Critics say India has become the developed world’s dumping ground, rapidly poisoning itself and its billion-plus…
GO TO SOURCE RANCHI, INDIA, September 2, 2002: Hindu organizations led by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena and dozens of local temple committees today disrupted rail traffic, smashed vehicles, beat up shop-keepers and enforced a strict bandh (general strike) in protest against the Jharkhand High Court’s orders to either demolish the Hanuman temple in front of the…
GO TO SOURCE BELGIUM, EUROPE, September 4, 2002: A US$15.6 million Indian wedding in Belgium has hit headlines in Europe for setting a new benchmark for “opulence and innovation.” For a few days, Antwerp became a Bollywood fantasy for the double wedding of Vishal and Priya Shah, son and daughter of Vijay Shah, one of the biggest diamond dealers in…
Source: Hindustan Times MEERUT, INDIA, August 28, 2002: Gurukul Prabhat Ashram, Gram Tikri, is the surprising home of an archery academy. About 40 to 50 miles outside of New Delhi, past the city of Meerut, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, dozens of barefoot young boys clad in yellow, chatter away in Sanskrit. Some of these boys also train six…
GO TO SOURCE HYDERABAD, INDIA, September 2, 2002: National Green Corps, comprising school children, along with the Andra Pradesh Pollution Control Board have urged people to make Ganesha icons only with clay and not from other materials such as plaster of Paris. They also asked people to not to install Ganesha icons painted with colors nor to immerse the Ganesha…