GO TO SOURCE AFGHANISTAN, March 24, 2002: After the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollar to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation. The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and…
GO TO SOURCE AHMEDABAD, INDIA, March 24, 2002: An outpouring of emotions greeted the National Human Rights Commission team that visited the state three weeks after the communal violence began. While a jittery officialdom tried to explain to the NHRC that it did all it could to contain the riots, the victims of the riots narrated quite another story —…
GO TO SOURCE HATFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM, March 24, 2002: Mahendra Joshi of the human rights organization, “Cause We Care,” reports that they have successfully gotten the BBC to replace the word “militant” with the word “activist” when describing the Hindus attacked on the train in Godhra. At first, the BBC said, “Hundreds of people have died in India in the…
Source: Paras Ramoutar TRINIDAD, March 23, 2002: During the colonial days, thousands of Hindus were transported to various parts of the world by the British, as Indentured laborers or “Girmitia” or “Jahaji” people. The countries included Mauritius, South Africa, Fiji and Trinidad. The majority of the people who were taken to the other shores were from Utter Pradesh, Bihar, Bengal…
GO TO SOURCE PITTSBURGH, USA, March 21, 2002: From February 22 through 24, 2002, the University of Pittsburgh chapter of Hindu Students Council hosted the annual HSC Lower Midwest Regional Retreat. The Retreat was attended by 84 people representing seven regional schools: University of Pittsburgh, Penn State University, University of Michigan, Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University, West Virginia University and…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, March 22, 3003: In a press release, the Hindu Human rights group (HHR) announced its deep concern for the anti-Hindu bias recently displayed by the entire British media and in particular by the Independent Newspaper and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The Independent shamelessly declared, “The Myth of Ram’s Temple Gives A Licence to Kill” while…
Source: Prakash M. Swamy BRIDGEWATER, March 9, 2002: Over 100 devotees from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland gathered on March 9 at Bridgewater Temple Community Center, New Jersey, braving morning cold, to take part in the 33rd Jayanti Celebrations of Sri Sankara Vijayendra Saraswati Swamiji, the junior seer of Kanchi Kamakoti Peeth in Tamil Nadu. Sri Shankara Vijayendra…
GO TO SOURCE MARICOPA, ARIZONA, March 16, 2002: Although the current building is a beige, modular structure, a 15-acre site in Maricopa will be the first place in Arizona where a traditional-looking Hindu temple will be built. The grand opening for the Maha Ganapati Temple of Arizona took place in February, and 500 devotees made the trip. Temple leaders have…
GO TO SOURCE KERALA, INDIA, March 19, 2002: Unqualified doctors are exploiting the boom in traditional Indian massage treatments, say some experts. Ayurvedic medicine has been practiced in India for thousands of years. But interest in the technique has been growing in other parts of the world with the general trend towards holistic medicines. It has become a big tourist…
GO TO SOURCE HYDERABAD, INDIA, March 18, 2002: In late January the Indian subsidiary of an American company, Catalytic Software, moved into New Oroville, Catalytic’s township of dome-shaped dwellings an hour’s drive south of the technology city of Hyderabad in southern India. Ashok Kumar Madugula, a software developer who is one of the township’s first residents, has quickly adapted to…