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…
Source: www.serv-online.org FEBRUARY 26 2002: The society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians (SERV) is an interreligious group currently based in North America. Its aim is to help the promotion of vegetarianism among all religions and groups within religions. They currently have good representation from Jewish, Christian and Buddhist traditions, but Hinduism is not represented. They are especially looking for quotations…
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 LONDON, ENGLAND, March 04, 2002: Hindu leaders in Britain are strongly protesting a new portrait that depicts football (soccer) captain David Beckham, his pop singer wife Victoria Spice and their son as Hindu Gods. Two Sikh sisters from north England drew the portrait as part of celebrations to mark the Commonwealth Games here to commemorate 50 years…
GO TO SOURCE LUCKNOW, INDIA, March 2, 2002: Monks and corporate head honchos shared the same podium at a meeting where talks centered around value-based leadership in boardrooms and workshops. “The meet is trying to find a common ground where the sages are reaching out to boardrooms and companies are looking at the inner self to evolve as a value-based…