GO TO SOURCE WASHINGTON, D.C., May 30, 2002: Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, was interviewed on the Public Broadcasting System on the subject on India and Pakistan. An excerpt of this very informative statement of US position: “Moderator Jim Lehrer asks, ‘How close are India and Pakistan to a war?’ Powell replies, ‘I am afraid that it is…
GO TO SOURCE June 1, 2002: Researcher Stuart Sovatsky requests HPI readers to e-mail him at “source” with their list of the ten most important events related to Yoga or Hinduism in the US over the past 10-15 years. They are for his article on Hinduism in the US which will appear in the Columbia University Desk Reference on Eastern…
GO TO SOURCE June 1, 2002: On Saturday and Sunday, June 8 and 9, 2002, Sri Swamiji will visit Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada–not Toronto, as previously reported in HPI of May 30. Swamiji will be at the Yoga in Daily Life Center, 2245 West Broadway, Vancouver, 604-608-8734. Reservations required.
GO TO SOURCE AHMADABAD, INDIA, May 30, 2002: A Muslim bus driver was dragged out of his bus and burned alive, and a Hindu man was killed in a bomb blast, police said Thursday, as violence resumed in western India, where nearly 1,000 people have died in three months of Hindu-Muslim clashes. Both men were killed Wednesday night in Kadi,…
GO TO SOURCE MANGALORE, INDIA, May 25, 2002: Sri Sugunendra Theertha Swamiji of Puttige Mutt will participate in the Silver Jubilee Celebration of Sri Venkateshwara Temple in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvani. It is popularly known as “Tirupathi of America” after the famed Venkateshwara temple to Lord Vishnu in Tirupathi, South India. According to a press release from Puttige Mutt, the festival, which…
GO TO SOURCE MIAMI, FLORIDA, May 30, 2002: World renowned Yoga master T. K. V. Desikachar and his two students/children, Mekhala and Kausthub, are traveling through the United States from India on a six-concert Vedic chanting tour. On Tuesday, the trio led a crowd of more than 60 in the ancient art of chanting at the Yamaha Concert Hall inside…
GO TO SOURCE ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, USA, May 30, 2002, In May, 2002, one of the world’s most loved and respected spiritual Masters, Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda (Swamiji) will visit North America with the message that “World Peace is in Your Hands.” Sri Swamiji kicks off his North American tour with a seminar and retreat in Alexandria, VA, on May 30-June 2.…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, May 30, 2001: Author Salman Rushdie offers his analysis and approach to tensions between India and Pakistan in this New York Times editorial, which is, at least in comparison to a lot of editorials on the situation, relatively well-informed on the ground realities. An excerpt, “This time President Musharraf is the one being…
GO TO SOURCE GAYA, INDIA, May 27, 2002: Minor skirmishes on Sunday between Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) activists on the one hand and new Buddhists on the other marred the Buddha Purnima or birthday celebrations, the most important event of the Buddhist calendar. According to the Buddhist belief, it was on this day that rarest of the…