Source: Times of India SRINAGAR, INDIA, November 19, 2001: While the women of Afghanistan are celebrating the fall of the Taliban, their sisters in the Kashmir valley have also been liberated from wearing a burqa to cover their faces. Quoting Rifat Hyder, a working woman, ” If Afghan women who were covered from head to foot can now remove their…
Source: The Daily Star, November 25, 2001 DHAKA, BANGLADESH, November 25, 2001: A Division Bench of the High Court of Bangladesh yesterday issued a order asking the government to explain within four weeks why it should not be asked to take proper steps to protect the country’s Hindus from terrorist attacks and harrasment. The court will also hear on November…
GO TO SOURCE ESSEX, UNITED KINGDOM, November 24, 2001: A vicar in Essex has banned yoga classes from his church hall because he fears it is not compatible with Christianity. Reverend Dick Farr of St Mary’s Church in Henham, near Saffron Walden, said he became concerned on discovering an aim of the class was to “ascend to a higher spiritual…
GO TO SOURCE CHINA, November 25, 2001: The exact year in which woodblock printing was invented is still very much debated in academic circles because no artifacts or documentary records related to the earliest printing have been discovered. However, a sheet with mantras of the Dharani Sutra, in Sanskrit, printed in the early Tang and unearthed in the suburban district…
GO TO SOURCE BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, November 22, 2001: At least six Hindus have converted to Christianity in Orissa. Kalicharan Behera and five members of his family converted to Christianity in Chapalli village in Kendrapara district but a Hindu organization says the family converted under duress. Subash Chouhan, convener of the Hindu Jagran Sammukhya, claimed that Behera’s in-laws had adopted Christianity…
GO TO SOURCE ORISSA, INDIA, November 22, 2001: The police registered a case on a fresh complaint of damage to a place of worship in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa on Thursday, even as indefinite curfew was clamped in three subdistricts. Damage was caused to a place of worship at Dhoti village. Ten platoons of armed police were maintaining vigil with…
GO TO SOURCE BONGOAN, BENGAL, November 22, 2001: Hundreds of Bangladeshi Hindu families who have crossed the border into India to escape repression at home are refusing to return to their country. To escape any possible move by the Indian authorities to send them back, these families were apparently hiding in a village near the Thakurnagar railway station. Dipali Adhikari…
GO TO SOURCE DHAKA, BANGLADESH, November 24, 2001: This website contains and extensive account of recent acts of violence against the Hindu community in Bangladesh. “From the day after the election,” they state, “members of the Hindu community have been living in fear as news of terrible acts of violence dominated the daily papers. The group “Hindu Human Rights” is…
GO TO SOURCE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, November 23, 2001: An excellent article on the passing of the founder of Hinduism Today and HPI appears at “source” above.
GO TO SOURCE RISHIKESH, INDIA, November 23, 2001: His Holiness, Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj, of Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, who was one of the foremost disciples of Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj of Rishikesh, passed away and attained Maha Samadhi today, Friday, November 23, 2001 at 4:30pm at Sivananda Ashram. He had served as the General Secretary of the Divine Life Society…