GO TO SOURCE T. AGATHA, MAINE, March 5, 2002: “The Catholic roots of this far-northern valley are about as deep as they get,” begins this Associate Press Report. “More than two centuries after Catholics marked the land with a large cross, people in and around this town named for a martyred saint are still steeped in the faith. So naturally…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 05, 2002: After a series of meetings with central ministers, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Muslim leaders, Swami Jayendra Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of Kanchipuram, the latest mediator on the Ayodhya issue, said that the VHP had agreed to await the verdict of the Supreme Court on the disputed site. He also endorsed…
GO TO SOURCE GANDHINAGAR, INDIA, March 7, 2002: Nine days after communal violence first broke out in Gujarat, the death toll now stands at 667, including the 60 persons who died in the attack on the Sabarmati Express on February 27. Official sources said the death toll in the attack on the train at Godhra had risen from 58 to…
GO TO SOURCE GODHRA, INDIA, March 5, 2002: In this article by Rajiv Chandrasekaran of the Washington Post Foreign Service, Hindus are accused of provoking the attack on the Sabarmati Express. The article reads in part, “For two days, as the Sabarmati Express snaked across northern India, some Hindu activists in cars S-5 and S-6 carried on like hooligans. They…
GO TO SOURCE JAIPUR, INDIA, March 7, 2002: In one of the more bizarre developments surrounding the Godhra killings, Police have arrested 81 bookies offering bets on the likelihood of religious riots breaking out in a state bordering Gujarat, where hundreds of people were killed in Hindu-Muslim violence. Two of the bookies, Genda Lal and Satyanarain, were offering odds of…
GO TO SOURCE SAUSALITO, CALIFORNIA, March 7, 2002: Voters rejected a proposal to build a $7.8 million police and fire building after a campaign alleged the facility would destroy this upscale town’s appearance and violate its feng shui. Opposition to the Mediterranean-style facility arose in part because some said it would violate Sausalito’s feng shui, the ancient Chinese art of…
GO TO SOURCE CHENNAI, INDIA, February 25, 2002: Tatwamasi S Dixit at just 11, knew the Vedas by heart. At 29, the priest from Varanasi is the managing director of Info Vedic Services Pvt Ltd. He did his parallel education when he was still training to be a priest and then completed his CA. “After that I decided to use…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, March 4, 2002: As part of efforts to end the Ayodhya impasse, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Monday night held consultations with Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi. The pontiff met the Prime Minister after holding wide-ranging discussions with VHP top brass and other Hindu religious leaders, who have vowed to go…
GO TO SOURCE AHMEDABAD, INDIA, March 5, 2002: Stray incidents of violence continued in Gujarat on the sixth day even though the scale of violence came down considerably. The toll in the last six days of violence in this riot-torn states now stands at 572, including the 58 persons killed in the attack on Sabarmati Express in Godhra last Wednesday.…
GO TO SOURCE SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA, February 27, 2002: After the Khmer Rouge laid down their arms in Cambodia, the ancient Angkor complex that was built between the 9th and 14th century by the Khmer Kings became available for exploration by tourists and religious seekers. This article written by news correspondent David Richie delves into the wonders of some 30…