GO TO SOURCE THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, INDIA, July 8, 2002: “Only God can prevent the breakout of an epidemic during the pilgrim season in Sabarimala,” chairman of Assembly Environment committee, George J. Matthew said here on Monday. The eight-member committee which submitted its report on Sabarimala told reporters, the popular pilgrim centre was facing immense health and environment problems. Matthew said,…
GO TO SOURCE MONTREAL, CANADA, June 8, 2002: A colloquium was held on Saturday, June 8, 2002, at the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada to explore the possibility of employing indigenous dharma as an epistemic category to understand Indic religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism) following the lead provided by Dr. Ambedkar. The following persons participated: Mr.…
GO TO SOURCE BANGALORE, INDIA, July 9, 2002: A short stay in a temple or place of worship can actually improve your mental health, a study has shown. Researchers in India found that a six-week stay at a Hindu temple can produce the same improvement in people with severe psychiatric disorders as a month-long course of standard drugs. According to…
GO TO SOURCE PUNE, INDIA, July 7, 2002: As the demand for priests to perform certain rituals has increased, the supply of male priests has dwindled. Often young men do not follow in their father’s footsteps and have taken up what they feel to be more lucrative careers. Hence in 1990, an organization call Jnana Prabodhini started training both women…
GO TO SOURCE PUNE, INDIA, July 7, 2002: Jnana Prabodhini, a Pune-based organization, has been training women to become priests since 1990. With very little opposition from the public, JP has found that women priests have filled a demand, that priests graduating from their program perform rituals for all classes of people, and that women should have an equal opportunity…
GO TO SOURCE HAMM, GERMANY, July 8, 2002: Around 3,000 Hindus on Sunday attended the inauguration of the largest Hindu temple in Europe, at Hamm in northwest Germany, police said. The 700-square-meter Sri Kamadchi Ampal temple took two years to build and cost US$990,000, most of it from donations. The building is built in an architectural style typical of southern…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, India, July 3, 2002: Joint research conducted by the Scientists of Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, a Central Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) laboratory, and Go-Vigyan Anusandhan Kendra, Nagpur, has resulted in the granting of a US patent for a unique pharmaceutical composition, announced Union Minister Murli Manohar Joshi. The research discovered…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, July 15, 2002: Sporting the ubiquitous hamburger bun overflowing with vegetables, the July 15 issue of Time magazine carries a cover story on the merits of vegetarianism for everyone. For many, meat is an obscene cuisine. It’s not just the additives and ailments connected with the consumption of beef, though a dish of…
GO TO SOURCE TRINIDAD, July 8, 2002: HPI’s local contacts here sent in a note that a Japanese-language DVD had appeared entitled “RG Veda.” Our correspondent, Anil Mahabir, spoke with a distributor of the DVD who said, “The film is not about anything even remotely resembling Indian culture or Hinduism, although the name “RG Veda” might seem to suggest such.”…
GO TO SOURCE AHMEDABAD, INDIA, July 7, 2002: Deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani has rejected a forensic report that contradicts the government’s view that a Muslim mob had set a train on fire from outside, killing 58 passengers, in February near here. The contention of Ahmedabad-based Forensic Science Laboratory that the fire, which engulfed two coaches of Sabarmati Express…