Source: Sun LABASA, FIJI, February 7, 2002: Police have interviewed some church members of Wamikoro town over their alleged involvement in desecrating a Hindu temple next to their church. The Sun reported last week that the temple, next to a Pentecostal church, was vandalized when its door was forced open and pictures of Deities removed from large frames and destroyed.…
Source: Hindustan Times JAMMU, INDIA, February 17, 2002: Terrorists shot dead eight Hindus and injured six others in a village in Rajouri district last night, an official spokesman said here today. Terrorists swooped on Nirala village in Dharamsal area of the district and fired on the minority community members, he said. A police team and security personnel have rushed to…
GO TO SOURCE MANGALORE, KARNATAKA, INDIA, February 13, 2002: Even with so many temples and religious festivals, Karnataka State has yet to achieve self-sufficiency in sacred kumkum, the red powder used in worship. It is traditionally made of tumeric powder and lime, but many chemical imitations have appeared, some of them harmful to the body. The kumkum sold in the…
Source: The Hindu THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, February 12, 2002: The 29th all-India conference of Dravidian Linguistics which drew to a close here today has urged India’s government to scrap any move to include in the country’s standard school curriculum the theory that the Indus Valley civilization was of the Aryans and not of the Dravidians. In a resolution adopted unanimously at…
GO TO SOURCE MUMBAI, INDIA, February 9, 2002: In December of 2001, Tushar Gandhi, a great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, was approached by an American company who wanted permission to use images of Gandhi to sell to one of their clients, a credit card company. According to Tushar he told the Indianapolis-based company, “I have no copyright over Bapuji. But they…
GO TO SOURCE UNITED KINGDOM, February 17, 2002: A PhD student living in the UK and currently working on a topic regarding “Hindu Philosophy On Death And Dying” needs some help with editing her draft. Any offer from a scholar will be gratefully accepted. Kindly contact Sibani Roy at “source” above.
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, JANUARY 16, 2002: “I was destined to do this. I grew sick of Sanskrit in school, but it’s caught me again,” says 74-year-old composer Vanraj Bhatia, of his newest double album Ananta. He was trained in Indian classical ragas as a child and later studied composition in Western classical music with Nadia Boulanger. The…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, USA, February 11, 2002: War, pollution and logging are despoiling the world’s mountain ranges. The Alps, the Rockies and the Hindu Kush are most threatened, according to a UN study released today. Mountains are the “water towers of the world,” supplying water to more than half the world’s population, said the report by the Tokyo-based…
GO TO SOURCE MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, February 15, 2002: In a growing scandal for the Archdiocese of Boston, Roman Catholic leaders on Friday named 14 New Hampshire priests accused of sexual misconduct over a quarter-century. The Diocese of Manchester, which covers the state, gave the names to prosecutors and the public. “What I report is sad in one way because…
GO TO SOURCE SINGAPORE, February 12, 2002: Non-Hindus of various religions and ethnic groups are helping to rebuild the 127-year-old Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple in Ceylon Road, a Katong landmark often referred to simply as the Ceylon Road temple. Their generosity has helped the temple to raise more than US$2.7 million in three years. Mr R. Theyvendran, chairman of the…