{"id":7009,"date":"2008-08-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/08\/13\/hindu-heritage-fest-in-toronto-drew-thousands\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-heritage-fest-in-toronto-drew-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/08\/13\/hindu-heritage-fest-in-toronto-drew-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Heritage Fest in Toronto Drew Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.southasianfocus.ca\/community\/article\/54437\">www.southasianfocus.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">TORONTO, CANADA,  August 13 2008: An estimated 2,500 people from across the area braved the rains last weekend to attend the Hindu Heritage Festival, held at Toronto&#8217;s Black Creek Pioneer Village by the Hindu Federation as announced on HPI on August 9.<\/p>\n<p>The festival provided a perspective on how the first members of the community experienced life in Canada, said Pandit Roopnauth Sharma, president. The event is set to become an annual fixture on the community&#8217;s calendar, federation officials added.<\/p>\n<p>Advocating an Unusual Role for Trees<br \/>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/12\/science\/12prof.html?ref=science<\/p>\n<p>MERRICKVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA: Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger, 63, is a native of Ireland who has bachelor&#8217;s degrees in medical biochemistry and botany, and has worked as a Ph.D.-level researcher at the University of Ottawa school of medicine, where she published several papers on the chemistry of artificial blood. She calls herself a renegade scientist, however, because she tries to bring together indigenous tradition and botany to advocate an unusual role for trees.<\/p>\n<p>She favors what she terms a bioplan, reforesting cities and rural areas with trees according to the medicinal, environmental, nutritional, pesticidal and herbicidal properties she claims for them, which she calls ecofunctions.<\/p>\n<p>Memory Elvin-Lewis, a professor of botany at Washington University, said that in India, for example, compounds from neem trees are said to have anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties and are planted around hospitals and sanitariums. &#8220;It&#8217;s not implausible,&#8221; Dr. Elvin-Lewis said; it simply hasn&#8217;t been studied. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her ideas are a rare, if not entirely new approach to natural history,&#8221; said Edward O. Wilson, a Harvard biologist. &#8220;The science of selecting trees for different uses around the world has not been well studied.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.southasianfocus.ca TORONTO, CANADA, August 13 2008: An estimated 2,500 people from across the area braved the rains last weekend to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}