GO TO SOURCE CHINA, May 6, 2001: China has announced plans to build the world’s largest statue, a 509-ft Buddha. The statue of Bodhisattva is to be built at Jiuhua Mountain, one of the four major Buddhist shrines in China. It is will be the largest statue of Bodhisattva, the Buddha of Compassion, in the world. When completed, the statue…
GO TO SOURCE PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA, May 9, 2001: Phnom Penh’s National Museum of Art, forgotten for many years, is once again showing the world its true colors. The extraordinary collection of bronze and stone statues on display here is unmatched elsewhere in the world. Tragically, looting and war have removed most of the decorative statues and reliefs from Angkor’s…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 27, 2001: Many American schoolchildren now have the right to dissect a virtual frog or a plastic model rather than the real thing. Now American Medical schools are catching up and recommending others do the same. Dr Jerry Vlasak, a trauma surgeon, is in India to introduce methods that replace animals. Computer simulators…
GO TO SOURCE May 9, 2001: The first three chapters of the Ganesha Purana in English translation are now available at “source.”
Source: BBC News Online NEW JERSEY, USA, May 4, 2001: In what may be a momentous milestone in our history, scientists have confirmed that the first genetically altered humans have been born. These births are the first cases of human germline genetic modification resulting in normal healthy children. According to researchers at St Barnabas Institute for Reproductive Medicine in New…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, April 21, 2001: Forty-thousand onlookers witnessed the 14th Annual Sikh Day Parade, April 21, in Manhattan as part of the Baisakhi celebrations. The parade was led by Gurbax Singh Malhi, a member of parliament from Canada, who was the chief guest and members of the organizing committees from various Sikh gurdwaras and societies…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 5, 2001: Taking the controversy of use of beef extract in the famous “French fries” of McDonald’s further, Shiv Sena activists on Saturday demanded closure of all 28 McDonalds in the country. Describing the alleged use of beef extract as “attack on the religious sentiments of Indians,” Delhi Shiv Sena leader Jai Bhagwan…
GO TO SOURCE PANAJI, INDIA, May 1, 2001: The meat-loving people of Goa are now turning toward vegetarianism, thanks to the concerted efforts of nongovernmental organizations to spread information on the ill-effects of meat. The NGOs point out that by virtue of an amendment to the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955, the central government has officially recognized vegetarianism as…
GO TO SOURCE LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, May 03, 2001: A US$2.2 million Hindu Temple and Cultural Center complex, which formally opened last month, will serve the more than 500 Indian American families in Las Vegas, Nevada and neighboring areas. The temple, which has taken six years to come to fruition, was inaugurated with the installation of the “utsav murtis,” Radha-Krishna,…
GO TO SOURCE WASHINGTON, D.C, Friday, May 4, 2001: The US Government-funded National Endowment for the Arts announced that it will provide nearly $54 million to arts organizations across the country in its second and final round of grants for the fiscal year 2001. They include the Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose (US$5,000), bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer Parijat Desai…