GO TO SOURCE LOS ANGELES, USA, February 27, 2002: Legendary Indian sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar won one of music’s highest awards, a Grammy, for his achievements in world music. Shankar was honored for his album “Full Circle/Carnegie Hall 2000” in the category in which he competed against artists such as Brazil’s Gilberto Gil and Milton Nascimento and Britain’s…
GO TO SOURCE BANGALORE, INDIA, February 12, 2002: Following protests from various quarters against the education department’s decision to allow setting up of about 300 English medium schools in the state, chief minister S M Krishna postponed the move announced recently because it was contrary to the state’s three-language formula — Kannada, Hindi and, most commonly, English.
GO TO SOURCE PUERTO RICO, March 1, 2002: Among a few Hindu or Hindu-based organizations in the territory of the US is the Self Realization Fellowship. They have an open house scheduled at their San Juan Center on Sunday May 19 at noon. Retreats are held the first weekend of the month. The purpose of the open houses are to…
GO TO SOURCE AHMADABAD, INDIA, March 1, 2002: Chaos spread through this western Indian city Friday and the death toll over three days of Hindu-Muslim violence climbed to 251, despite patrols by hundreds of soldiers and orders for police to shoot rioters and arsonists on sight. In the worst attack, hundreds of Hindus set fire to huts in a Muslim…
GO TO SOURCE KOLKATA, INDIA, FEBRUARY 18, 2002: From Tuesday onwards one can buy a khadi shirt or a dress that has been tailor-made by an international designers such as Rohit Bal and Malini Romani, at the Khadi Gramodyog Bhavan in Kolkata. Khadi is the traditional hand-spun and hand-woven cotton fabric promoted by Mahatma Gandhi. This is Khadi Village Industries…
GO TO SOURCE UDUPI, INDIA, February 19, 2002: Ayurveda is the best medicine system for mental health and this will be proved beyond doubt in the twenty-first century, argued Dr. Ben Hatai, Chairman of Japanese Society for Ayurveda. He was addressing a press meet at Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Ayurveda College, Kuthpady, near here on Monday. He is here with a delegation…
GO TO SOURCE OXFORD, ENGLAND, March 1, 2002: Professor Andrew Linzey of the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford, writes that he is “looking for a scholarly writer who could contribute an article (around 800 words) on Hindu Attitudes to Animals for the Animal World Encyclopedia which I am editing for Kingsley Publishing.” Persons interested may e-mail him at “source”…
GO TO SOURCE KAUAI, HAWAII, February 25, 2002: In 1989, Hinduism Today published a list of ten “Hindu Megatrends.” “Megatrends” is a term coined by futurologist John Naisbett in 1982 to name the major underlying forces that are transforming society and shaping the future. To formulate our ten Hindu megatrends more than a decade ago, we solicited the advice of…
Source: The Hindu KOTTAKKAL, INDIA, FEBRUARY 23, 2002: The government will soon open an ayurveda research center in Moscow as part of a package of programs being drawn up to preserve and promote ayurveda, the Union Minister for Human Resource Development and Science and Technology, Murli Manohar Joshi, said while inaugurating the centenary celebrations of Vaidyaratnam PS Varier Arya Vaidyasala.…
Source: The Hindu THRISSUR, INDIA, February 25, 2002: Out of a total of 40 of the 58 elephants of the Guruvayur Devaswom-run elephant shelter paraded before the Manjulal premises for the race, only seven elephants were allowed to run. The 39-year-old tusker, Kannan, emerged winner for the seventh time at the famous “anayottam” (elephant race) at the Guruvayur Sree Krishna…