GO TO SOURCE RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK, June 13, 2002: The Forum for Caribbean Unity will hold a meeting Saturday, June 22, from 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm at P. S. 161, 101-33 124 Street, Richmond Hill, Queens, NY. The keynote speaker is Pujya Swami Aksharanandaji, a Hindu scholar and monk from Guyana. Other community leaders will speak. As well…
GO TO SOURCE DELHI, INDIA, June 11, 2002: In his first attempt, he failed the Indian Air Force pilot test. Today, he’s all set to become supreme commander of all the armed forces. Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Azad, age 71, former principal scientific advisor to the prime minister, is a man of few words. His is an amazing…
Source: www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/210502/detFOR07.asp KATHMANDU, NEPAL, June 11, 2002: A six-percent drop in Nepal’s Hindu population in the last decade has evoked a mixed reaction in the sole Hindu kingdom. The recently published census report for 2001 shows Hindus make up 80.6 per cent of the population as against 86.5 per cent in 1991. Compared to this, the number of Buddhists rose…
GO TO SOURCE FREMONT, CALIFORNIA, June 10, 2002: Some organizers of the annual Festival of India (India’s independence day) celebration in Fremont suggested that the city’s reluctance to grant a permit for this year’s event may reflect a hint of racial discrimination. But when the dust settled, it was pretty clear to both sides that the festival’s biggest problem was…
GO TO SOURCE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, June 12, 2002: The Hindu Students Council and NetOHM- Boston announces that Francois Gautier will discuss “Misrepresentations of India by Indian and Western Media” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 6. Francois Gautier, who has lived in India for 30 years, is a French journalist, the correspondent in South Asia for Le Figaro, France’s…
GO TO SOURCE DELHI, INDIA, June 11, 2002: India’s governing coalition, the National Democratic Alliance, has chosen a leading defense scientist and a Muslim, A P J Abdul Kalam, as its new presidential candidate. The selection of the man who headed India’s guided missile program and nuclear weapons tests four years ago follows days of intense deliberations by coalition leaders.…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 2, 2002: A recent study conducted by a team from the Department of Medicine at the Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Medical Sciences would seem to indicate that Hindus are more likely to develop coronary heart disease than Muslims. Upon closer scrutiny of the subjects used to determine these results, it was determined…
GO TO SOURCE DEHRADUN, INDIA, June 2, 2002: A pilgrim visiting the famous Badrinath shrine will now take prasad, blessed food, home in an environmentally friendly basket made of bamboo. The temple committee has ordered 5,000 baskets from the Rooria community. Anil Joshi, director of a NGO associated with the project said, “The idea behind this step is to create…
GO TO SOURCE AHMEDABAD, INDIA, June 9, 2002: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, in a change of policy, has said that the government would provide no funds for rebuilding the shrines that were damaged in the post-Godhra riots. Contrary to his assurances to the Minorities Commission and Muslim leaders last month, the Chief Minister has now claimed that giving money…
GO TO SOURCE USA, June 11, 2002: On October 5, 2002, your organization can join the Foruth Annual National Gandi Day of Service. To register send an email to “source” above. The goal of the day of service is for the prosperous South Asian Community in America to give back to their community, to integrate themselves into the community, to…