KERALA, INDIA, September 14, 2022 (The Jewish Star): The Jewish community of Kerala, India, better known as Cochin Jews, has been shrinking — only 15 remain — ever since most of its members emigrated to Israel. Those who remain claim to be “the oldest diaspora community outside the Middle East.” An estimated 6,000 to 8,000 moved to Israel or elsewhere.…
NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 5, 2022 (INDIAN EXPRESS): The recent spell of heavy rains and floods that ravaged large parts of Pakistan’s Sindh province has also taken a heavy toll on the archaeological site of Mohenjo-daro. In fact, the calamity has pushed the archeological site – situated on the bank of the Indus river – to the “brink of extinction.”…
CHENNAI, INDIA, September 7, 2022 (IFP): The French Institute of Pondicherry in collaboration with the Idol Wing CID of the Tamil Nadu Police managed to trace back several murthis stolen from Tamil Nadu temples and smuggled to the US thanks to IFP’s rich and decades-old photo collection. Here’s just a sample of reports from the month of August: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/trichy/3-idols-stolen-from-mannargudi-temple-traced-to-la-museum/articleshow/93565649.cms?fbclid=IwAR2CULSgDy3RqmWYyxrlRU7oDQQDiB1JCRp5OFORsghLxsXVCRe_AAXadR8 https://kizhakkutoday.in/india75-14/https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2022/aug/16/kallakurichi-12th-centurystatues-of-chola-kings-go-missing-2487932.html?fbclid=IwAR2_4gY0LW2S1le9Pb5-MwtuP_ZuHLG2gOaRrBq2HN756fo4niAKXpxzp0ohttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/stolen-from-tamil-nadu-idol-traced-to-christies-auction-house/articleshow/93684573.cms?fbclid=IwAR0OY0vJrnTj6O_FWbNKBzWSkq5OzhtSXaxPQTsXpUvlsB0277QtvNfVsZEhttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/efforts-are-on-to-retrieve-six-antique-idols-stolen-from-tn-temple-tn-idol-wing-cid/articleshow/93756404.cms?from=mdrhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/two-out-of-12-idols-stolen-from-nagapattinam-temple-50-years-ago-traced-to-us/article65825521.ece?homepage=true&fbclid=IwAR2534-Mtwj9yViaG9Qc-NIEMzeB-Vygkphn2mudxBMHjbFrhJzPygcQpvk
SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, September 3, 2022 (San Francisco Chronicle): Musicians, performers, props and a table of food are all crammed into Indian theater company Naatak’s modest rehearsal space in Santa Clara. It’s small enough that performers sometimes trip on water bottles, and actors frequently run out of space on the makeshift stage. On a recent Sunday, the 27-year-old company made…
MUMBAI, INDIA, August 30, 2022 ( Manilla Bulletin): Workers caked in plaster are putting the finishing touches to storeys-high statues of the elephant God Ganesha in time for one of India’s biggest religious festivals, now jumbo-sized again after Covid. The 11-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival, which draws tens of thousands of Hindu devotees onto streets across the seaside megacity of Mumbai,…
INDIA, May 17, 2018 (BBC): In the first millennium, roughly 1,500 years ago, a pair of jackals began traveling around the world. They were known in India as Karataka and Damanaka, one wily and cunning, one noble and upright. They were the stars of one of the fabulous animal stories in a vast collection known as the Panchatantra. The tales…
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN, August 31, 2022 (India New England News): Iconic sites in Pakistan’s Sindh province such as the Mohenjo-Daro ruins, Kot Diji, Ranikot suffered widespread damage during the recent catastrophic floods. At Mohenjo-Daro alone, the record rain has damaged excavated areas and exposed the ones buried underneath by creating furrows in them, Dawn news reported. The accumulated water has seeped…
HYDERABAD, INDIA, august 28, 2022 (Deccan Chronicle): Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation will distribute about 300,000 clay Ganesha statues for free in its zonal offices and all GHMC circles, even as ministers Indrakaran Reddy and Talasani Srinivas Yadav urged people to use the eco-friendly statues for the Ganesh Chaturthi festival that begins on August 31. Mayor Gadwal Vijayalakshmi also…
NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 31, 2022 (India West): The festive season of this year started with the 10-day grand celebrations of Ganesh festival across India giving a high hope for the business community for big business this year. With this festival, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) once again re-continued its boycott of Chinese goods campaign. CAIT National President…
INDIA, August 27, 2022 (LatestLY): It is time to decorate our houses with beautiful rangoli designs because Ganesh Chaturthi 2022 is almost here. The Ganpati festival will be celebrated on Wednesday, August 31. It is also known as Vinayak Chaturthi or Vinayaka Chavithi. In the Hindu calendar, Ganesh Chaturthi is observed on the fourth day of Shukla Paksha of Bhadrapada…
