Ramayana Play Seeking Sponsors

GO TO SOURCE A Ramayana play featuring actors from the popular TV serial, including Arun Govil are touring with “Glimpses of the Ramayana” during the summer of 2001. The organizers are looking for sponsors in various cities. Contact kbharrat@sympatico.ca for all additional information including show availability and sponsorship costs per program.

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Is Race an Issue in UK Politics?

GO TO SOURCE NORTHAMPTON SOUTH, ENGLAND: In a crude and desperate attempt to sidetrack a political campaign, Mr. Tony Clarke, a Labour MP running for the seat of Northampton South, has been accused of bringing race issues into the election. His off-handed comments suggested that Mr. Vara, his Tory opponent, was an Ugandan Hindu who could not rely on the…

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Jain Temple Would Not Be Allowed To Come Up In Badrinath

Source: Punjab Kesari [Hindi], November 17, 2000 DEHRADUN, INDIA: Uttranchal’s chief minister Nityananda Swami denied the possibility of the construction of a Jain Temple in Badrinath and said that the sanctity/purity of this religious place would be maintained. He said, “We cannot permit the construction of a Jain temple in Badrinath. By this the purity of this religious place would…

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Madhya Pradesh Plan for Sanskrit Board

Source: The Hindu, November 21, 2000 BHOPAL, INDIA: The Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Mr. Digvijay Singh, has announced the setting up of a Sanskrit Board by January, 2001, to promote the language. Mr Singh said this at a function organized by the Avdhesh Pratap Singh University in Rewa the other day. A task force, comprising Sanskrit scholars, would be set…

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ICCR brings Ganga and Mekong Together

Source: The Hindustan Times 29- 11-2000 External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh’s idea of retracing the path that India’s ancient cultural links with South East Asia had carved was given an aesthetic shape by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and the dancer Madhvi Mudgal. The one-hour presentation “Ganga to Mekong Swarnabhumi,” [the Ganga River to the Mekong River’s “Land of…

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Book Released on Hindu Environmental Design

GO TO SOURCE VERMONT, USA: The noted publisher of Eastern books, Inner Traditions, announced today the release of “Vastu: The Indian Art of Placement” by Rohit Arya. The book explains how to design and decorate homes to reflect eternal spiritual principles using the ancient practice of vaastu, the Hindu art of environmental design. The book elucidates principles that orient and…

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Native Americans Call for Translators

GO TO SOURCE LAKEWOOD, COLORADO: Native American Mark Lewis the the No Boundaries Project appealed for translators to help with a web project listing “Let’s all work together” in as many of the world’s 6,700 languages as possible. So far they have 350, and would like help with translating this phrase into Hindi, Sanskrit and other Indian languages. They are…

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Lower Caste Hindu Fined For Touching Goddess

GO TO SOURCE CALCUTTA, INDIA: A Hindu lower-caste “untouchable” family in eastern India is to appeal to the human rights commission after being fined for touching a statue of the Goddess Kali. According to villagers, one family member, Malati Sith, entered a Kali temple and touched the forehead of the statue, angering the upper caste brahmin community in Pursurah village,…

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Dutch Parliament Legalizes Euthanasia

GO TO SOURCE THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS: In a majority vote of 104-40, the Dutch parliament endorsed a bill on Tuesday, November 28, that will legalize the practice of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. Since 1993, doctors have followed approved guidelines set out by parliament, but euthanasia was still considered a crime. These guidelines professed that a patient of sound mind and…

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