GO TO SOURCE BANGALORE, INDIA, August 8, 2002: When the State Department issued a travel advisory on May 31 warning Americans to leave India because the war prospects had risen to “serious levels,” global firms like Nortel Networks, Reebok, Sony, American Express, HSBC and GE Capital, who had moved their back rooms to Bangalore went nuts, according to this opinion…
A HREF=”http://www.newsabahtimes.com.my/Mei/22.5/leisure1.htm”GO TO SOURCE/A/P P BANGALORE, INDIA, May 22, 2002: While HPI usually abstains from reporting on its own Kauai home, others are doing so at an unusual pace these days. This report is just one of several recent ones. It states that more than 80 sculptors in India have given up smoking, drinking and eating meat while they carve…
Source: Hindu Press International KAUAI, HAWAII, August 10, 2002: An important TV documentary on the Iraivan Temple carving site in Bangalore is to be shown in India, and we urge you to watch, and to tell others as well. Called “India’s Gift to the West,” the massive all-stone granite temple is being carved in Bangalore and shipped to Hawaii where…
GO TO SOURCE THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, August 4, 2002: The July 27 Kumarakom boat tragedy in which 29 people were killed has resulted in Kerala Chief Minister A .K. Antony announcing that this year’s Onam celebrations — August 18-24 — would be simple and without the usual revelry. The pageantry that takes place on the main street of capital Thiruvananthapuram in…
Source: The Toronto Star TORONTO, CANADA, June 29, 2002: At a recent event at the popular downtown yoga studio Downward Dog, local musicians performed their unique blend of ancient Sanskrit prayers and modern Western music to a small crowd of yoga enthusiasts who sat cross-legged on the floor singing along in the ancient Hindu call-and-response tradition. While most Westerners know…
Source: South China Morning Post INDIA, July 27, 2002: One of the country’s richest and oldest Hindu temples is planning a global hair tender in a move to cut out middlemen and get the best price for thousands of pounds of shorn locks donated daily by devotees. Authorities from the Tirupati temple, in Andhra Pradesh, said notices would be published…
GO TO SOURCE PARIS, FRANCE, August 10, 2002: The Annual Chariot Festival of Sri Manika Vinayakar Alayam, will be held for the seventh year in succession on September 8, 2002, under the able guidance of the founder & president. The chariot festival, an ancient Hindu tradition followed through the ages in their motherland, has not been forgotten by the thousands…
GO TO SOURCE CHENNAI, INDIA, July 27, 2002: Despite strict government regulations and a public interest petition appealing to the government to put a stop to animal and bird sacrifice, it stills continues at some temples in the state. However, a recent order by the Madras High Court to the Home Secretary and the DGP to enforce the Tamil Nadu…
Source: Hindu Press International MUMBAI, INDIA, August 5, 2002: A recent BBC report by their correspondent, Sanjeev Srivastava, begins, “One of the oldest languages in the world, Sanskrit, is in danger of becoming extinct in India, the country of its origin. Although most Indian languages still use the basic grammar of Sanskrit, no more than a few thousand people in…