GO TO SOURCE MOSCOW, RUSSIA, May 25, 2001: In a statement issued by the Russian foreign ministry, Russia strongly condemns the Taliban militia’s decree to impose a dress code on Afghanistan’s Hindu and Sikh minorities. The decree is forcing non-Muslim minorities, particularly Hindus and Sikhs, to wear identity labels and prohibits them from living in the same house occupied by…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, May 25, 2001: Jews in America are outraged at the similarity between the Taliban action and the yellow star with the word “Jude,” that they were coerced into wearing when the Nazis came into power. The Jewish Anti-Defamation League in New York called the order, “a stark reminder of the exclusionary tactics employed by the…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 26, 2001: With the word “Yoga” and “expanding consciousness” everyday household words in America, India has taken on the task of restoring the ancient sciences in its colleges and universities. The University Grants Commission, responsible for much funding, is reviving courses on Vedic Astrology and Priestly Rituals, as well as establishing a new…
Source: Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 1, 2001: Delhi’s temples have noticed an influx of well-dressed students offering prayers for success in their examples. In this curious article, the practice is referred to as a “phobia,” and a Marxist professor is approvingly quoted as saying, “irrationality is making a comeback.” The article also mentions that many student rooms sport…
GO TO SOURCE OLDHAM, U.K., May 26, 2001: Community leaders have appealed for calm after hundreds of Asian youths clashed with police during a night of rioting in Oldham. At least 20 officers were injured and 17 people arrested after weeks of racial tension between white and Asian youths erupted into violence. Greater Manchester Police described the running battles as…
GO TO SOURCE Washington D.C., May 23, 2001: Nearly 200 Jains from across the United States were on hand to hear Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanuji, a Jain priest from New York, deliver the opening prayer to the US House of Representatives. Chitrabhanuji spent 28 years as a Jain monk. During his years in India, he founded the Divine Knowledge Society and…
GO TO SOURCE FAIRFIELD, IOWA, May 23, 2001: Located north of Fairfield, Vedic City will become Iowa’s 950th city, its first since 1982 and the first city in the United States to be developed according to the architectural principles of Maharishi Sthapatya Veda. Residents of the area, mostly adherents of Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation, voted 64-1 in favor.Vedic City petitioners estimated…
GO TO SOURCE WASHINGTON, U.S.A., May 25, 2001: Congressional pressure on the Bush administration to go after Afghanistan’s Taliban regime for a plethora of human rights violations and its sponsorship of international terrorism has mounted. Sam Brownback, Republican, who chairs the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on South Asia, and Barbara Boxer, Democrat who is a ranking member of the Foreign Relations…
GO TO SOURCE WARSAW, POLAND, May 25, 2001: In an unprecedented ceremony, Polish bishops plan prayers Sunday to apologize for a 1941 massacre of Jews in northeastern Poland and the suffering by other Jews at the hands of Roman Catholics during World War II in the hope for reconciliation with Jewish groups who accuse them of being too tolerant of…
GO TO SOURCE DALLAS, TEXAS, May 25, 2001: A convention of 700 Keralite Hindus was held at the Thrimurti Nagar in Dallas, Texas, to facilitate a spiritual reawakening among the Malayalee-speaking Hindu community in North America. It was the first of its kind in North America, and was addressed by religious leaders from India and the United States, said K.G.…