GO TO SOURCE PUNJAB, INDIA, February 20, 2002: We are heading towards the greatest holocaust of unborn girls in human history, according to Sabu George, a girls’ rights campaigner. Girls are viewed as a burden in this community of farmers, where in the past some families would ask village midwives to kill a newborn baby if it turned out to…
GO TO SOURCE DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, February 20, 2002: The country mourns the end of an era in the passing of an incomparable violinist and music teacher, “Sangeetha Kalaimani” Arunajalam Govindsamy Pillay. Born in Pietermaritzburg in 1924 he came under the tutelage of Edward J. Govindaswami who taught him classical music and Tamil literature. In 1948, Pillay went to India…
GO TO SOURCE AMRITSAR, INDIA, February 18, 2002: After teaching his ancient art of Oriya dance to students in Singapore, Shashadhar Acharya returned home to pass on his skills and passion during a theatre workshop organized by Sangeet Natak Academy and Guru Nanak Dev University. Upon reflection of his experience in Singapore to that of India Shashadhar Acharya said, “He…
Source: The Hindu DELHI, INDIA, February 23, 2002: “The world’s most graceful dress for women is just six yards of untailored cloth. A few deft operations and you step forth with poise and presence. Here in these pages is the secret of how to do it….” Thus goes a leaflet presented by the Central Cottage Industries Emporium (CCIE) to coincide…
GO TO SOURCE AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, February 11, 2002: Imagine a documentary show-casing a pilgrim’s journey from New Zealand, through India, attendance at last years Maha Kumbh Mela, and culminating back in New Zealand for a soul-stirring performance with Indian sarod player Vikash Maharaj. Andrei Jewell, an Auckland film maker whose love of Indian culture began when he was 16…
GO TO SOURCE ORLANDO, FLORIDA, February 19, 2002: The developers of Orlando’s Hindu University of America are certain of one thing: the unique institution they are planning already has plenty of good karma. “When you are doing God’s work, He makes things happen,” says Hindu University chairman, Braham Aggarwal, 66. In Hinduism, the faith of nearly a billion people, the…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, February 18, 2002: More than a million imported items of endangered wildlife have been seized in Britain in the past five years, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) revealed today in the first detailed analysis of the confiscated goods. The study shows that even the most commonly recognized endangered species are being smuggled into…
GO TO SOURCE INDORE, INDIA, February 21, 2002: A helicopter carrying Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee President, Radhakishan Malviya and noted recording and concert artist, singer Anuradha Paudwal, crashed here on Thursday near Kumheri Kakad village, official sources said. However, all the occupants of the copter survived, though one suffered a spinal injury. Paudwal, one of India’s most beloved performers, was…
GO TO SOURCE LUCKNOW, INDIA, January 6, 2002: Three tribes of the Andaman and Nicobar islands may have links with an African tribe, believed to be one of the world’s oldest human community and if established, the link could dramatically change the evolutionary history of mankind, a senior scientist said here. “After analyzing the genetic make up of endangered tribal…
GO TO SOURCE MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, February 19, 2002: The first issue of the Rudra Centre’s Rudraksha World Newsletter presents informative articles and personal testimonials regarding the historical and contemporary use of rudraksha beads. The naturally beads from India and Nepal have been worn for thousands of years by the yogis and the holy people of India as an alternative therapy…