GO TO SOURCE ALLAHABAD, INDIA, January 11, 2001: “I was less interested in spiritualism and more in adventure.” So recalls Vijay Rana of BBC Hindi Service as he describes his attendance at the great Kumbh Mela two decades ago. Vijay describes the sheer joy of participating in the wave of human bodies drawing each soul towards a sacred dip at…
Source: South China Morning Post DELHI, INDIA, December 27, 2001: Authorities in Nirman Bhavan, the huge complex housing the ministries of Health and Urban Development in the Indian capital, have unleashed a specially trained monkey to keep an army of fellow simians at bay. Officials deployed four-year-old Raju to put an end to the monkey business that has been going…
GO TO SOURCE BOMBAY, INDIA, January 11, 2001: With dwindling numbers in a tight-knit community, the Zoroastrian faith has cause for concern. Most proponents of the religion originating from Iran, discourage conversion and interfaith marriage. As a result, only 125,000 Parsis live world-wide most of them in Bombay. Even though the community has prospered in India through business ventures and…
GO TO SOURCE HOUSTON, TEXAS, January 4, 2001: A copy of the “Jesus” video will be placed in every mailbox in Texas. The mailing to 8.4 million homes is the largest ever for the 83-minute film. “We’re not out to bug people, we’re out to make a difference,” Lee Miller, spokesman for the project, told The Dallas Morning News in…
GO TO SOURCE OREGON, USA, January 11, 2001: In an attempt to discover vaccines for the prevention of disease and new medicines to cure an existing illness, scientists at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center have produced a genetically modified monkey. They intend to modify future monkeys to react more as humans do to disease, particularly HIV. With subjects closely…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 30, 2000: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has taken up the cause of convincing the masses that the Christian new year is no cause for celebration. VHP senior vice-president Acharya Giriraj Kishore told News Today: “The Hindu new year falls in Chaitra, the month of April, and that is when it should be celebrated.…
Source: Reuters LONDON, ENGLAND, January 8, 2001: East Indian Amma’s will be delighted to hear that a company in London has produced a curry pill whose main constituent is the beloved herb Turmeric.This pill, known as P54 by the company researching its benefits, has been tested on patients with colon cancer. Proven to help prevent bowel cancer, it will be…
GO TO SOURCE TAMPA, FLORIDA: The tenth annual conference of “Yoga of Positive Health” was enthusiastically attended by doctors, scholars and practitioners in December, 2000. Collaborating to orchestrate the exchange of knowledge and philosophy were the University of South Florida, the College of Public Health’s Center for Positive Health and Swami Vivekananda’s Yoga Research Foundation. Highlights included such topics as…
GO TO SOURCE After the partition of India in 1947, Sindhis from Pakistan immigrated to many countries of the world. If you have any information about this migration first or second-hand, it may be used for a new book called “Sindhi Jottings” or as reference material in the archives of India. Contact: hiroshroff@hotmail.com
GO TO SOURCE Inspiring devotees and instilling in them, the ideology that every home is a temple, along with the meaning of and method of effective prayer has been the basis of the teachings of Shree Maa Ji of the Devi Mandir located in California. Along with Swami Satyananda Saraswati, she will be will be on a joint lecture tour…