video.google.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 26, 2006: “Seva Disha” a video posted on Google video provides an excellent look at the RSS, its creation and fundamental purpose, leaders and their amazingly numerous social service projects. It showcases a number of their almost 70,000 service projects throughout India, the bulk of which are educational for children otherwise unable to attend school.…
www.hinducouncil.com.au NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, October 20, 2006: The October – December newsletter from the Hindu Council of Australia is available online. Readers may download the PDF file as well as sign up for their bi-monthly newsletters on their website at URL above.
www.pib.nic.in NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 26, 2006: The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act of 2005 is now in effect. The Ministry of Women and Child Development issued a notification the law would be enforced beginning October 26. The Act was passed Parliament in August of last year and assented to by the president in September. However, implementation was…
www.sajaforum.org NEW YORK, NEW YORK, October 22, 2006: The NASDAQ Stock Market has added Diwali to the events it commemorates on its seven-storey-tall signage on its head quarters in New York’s Times Square. To see the photo, go to source above.
www.businessweek.com NEW YORK, NEW YORK, October 24, 2006: Times have changed since Gordon Gekko quoted Sun Tzu in the 1987 movie Wall Street. Has the Bhagavad Gita replaced The Art of War as the hip new ancient Eastern management text? Signs of worldly success abounded as members of the Young Presidents’ Organization met at a mansion in a tony New…
www.chicagotribune.com AURORA, ILLINOIS, October 22, 2006: It is one thing to tend to the temple worship. It is quite another to deal with some 7,000 hungry souls from throughout the Midwest who drop in once a year, expecting to be fed on blessed Indian food. Yet such is the calling of Aurora’s Sri Venkateswara Swami Temple, outside Chicago, as Diwali…
www.ndtv.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 22, 2006: Diwali, the festival of lights, is being celebrated across India. Traditionally, Diwali is celebrated over a period of five days, and Saturday was Lakshmi Puja, a day when prayers are offered to the goddess of wealth. While festivals are a time to worship the divine and celebrate with family and friends, they are…
www.chron.com HOUSTON, TEXAS, October 21, 2006: Like Christmas in the U.S., Diwali in India often involves a month of preparation. There are Diwali sales at stores and decorations to hang at home. A few movies are always marketed for Deepavali release. “It is hard to create the same ambience here in Houston,” Narasiman said. “Because it’s mainly celebrated only in…
Paras Ramoutar TRINIDAD, October 22, 2006: Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister,Patrick Manning, feels that the Hindu festival of Diwali, Saturday October 21, a public holiday, brings the people together. In his annual Diwali message to more than 500,000 East Indians, with about 350,000 of them Hindus, Manning said that while it is the most important religious event of our Hindu…
www.nytimes.com KHORI, INDIA, September 28, 2006: Life for Mr. Patil’s farming family in the remote hilly tribal area 200 miles NE of Mumbai had been relatively the same for hundreds of years until the turbines came. Now while Dilip Pantosh Patil is plowing his fields with a plow powered by oxen, turbines owned by Suzlon Energy are generating energy from…