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.…
GO TO SOURCE FREMONT, CALIFORNIA, May 26, 2001: The change in Fremont was subtle. One day, Hillside Drive was renamed Gurdwara Road, for the Gurdwara Sahib Temple, which Sikh residents built there. There is little doubt that over the last ten years, a blue-collar, somewhat anonymous, community has essentially disappeared. In its place has arisen something dazzlingly different: a magnet…
GO TO SOURCE SEATTLE, U.S.A., May 25, 2001: An apology by McDonald’s Corp. for any confusion about the beef flavoring in its U.S. french fries won’t affect three lawsuits, the lawyer who filed the cases says. Harish Bharti would continue to pursue the cases he has brought in King County Superior Court and in British Columbia and California. He took…
Source: Deccan Chronicle KATHMANDU, NEPAL, May 24, 2001: Nepal may no longer be a Hindu kingdom if a bid by minority communities not to register themselves as Hindus succeeds in this year’s census. After three centuries of being under the Hindu umbrella, the janajatis, or minority communities and tribespersons, are demanding the right to propagate their independent culture — a…