Press Release TRINIDAD/TOBAGO, WEST INDIES, September 18, 2006: Divali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, will be celebrated nationally in Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday October 21, 2006. The theme of this year’s Divali magazine being produced by the Indo-Caribbean Cultural Council is “The Splendor of Divali: Highlights of the Festival.” Trinidad and Tobago gives the world a unique brand of…
aryasamajscarborough.googlepages.com SCARBOROUGH, CANADA, September 19, 2006: The Arya Samaj Scarborough Vedic Cultural Centre, located at 2370 Midland Avenue (Unit B-10), Scarborough, Canada, cordially invites the general public to its annual one night and one day Veda Yajna, on September 30 & October 1, 2006, respectively. For further information, click URL above.
HPI INDIA, September 17, 2006: In yesterday’s HPI, we mentioned that this book: Kalyanaraman, S., 2006, Bharatiya Languages — History and formation of Jaati-bhasha — Sarasvati hieroglyphs as mlecchita vikalpa (Decipherment of Indus script), Bangalore, Babasaheb (Umakanta Keshav) Apte Smarak Samiti, 652 pp. It includes an up-to-date and comprehensive corpus of inscriptions of Sarasvati civilization (Indus Script) — including finds…
www.hindustantimes.com VARANASI, INDIA, September 18, 2006: Resentment is brewing among some members of the Hindu community here over Lord Krishna being dressed in jeans and T-shirt in Vrindavan recently. Some religious leaders in the Hindu community believe that dressing Lord Krishna in jeans and T-shirt with a mobile phone in hand was part of a conspiracy to defame the Hindu…
www.kansas.com WITCHITA, KANSAS, September 17, 2006: Fourteen-year-old Samanvitha Sridhar has a reason for choosing not to wear the bindi on her forehead in public. It has nothing to do with how she views her Hindu faith and everything to do with how non-Hindus react. “There’s very few Hindus in our community, and it takes forever to explain to everybody why…
www.hinducounciluk.org UNITED KINGDOM, September 7, 2006: A director of the Hindu Council in the United Kingdom, Jay Lakhani, gave a speech at the Metropolitan Police Authority’s hearing with faith communities on September 7 in answer to the Hindu perspective on the fight against terrorism. Lakhani said, in part, “This issue has arisen in the name of religion and only a…
HPI INDIA, September 17, 2006: A new book has been issued by S. Kalyanaraman, entitled: Bharatiya Languages — History and formation of Jaati-bhasha — Sarasvati hieroglyphs as mlecchita vikalpa (Decipherment of Indus script). The 652 page book, which is just at the press, is available for free on the Internet in two files. It includes an up-to-date and comprehensive corpus…
www.bhajanawali.com TORONTO, ONTARIO, The mission of Bhajanawali as an organization is stated as follows, “Since 1981 Bhajanawali has been spreading the word of harmony based on the rich teachings of the Vedic religion in the form of a radio program and website. The radio program is broadcast every Sunday from 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time) on the…
archive.gulfnews.com BANGALORE, INDIA, September 9, 2006: When Javed Abidi, a former journalist who is wheelchair bound and now directs the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People in New Delhi, was frightened and humiliated when he had to be carried through an Indian airport door because the airport has no ramps, it was the last straw for Abidi.…
news.bbc.co.uk CALCUTTA, INDIA, September 15, 2006: Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court Vikash Sridhar Sirpurkar recently passed the following order excluding the aggressive pandaas, priest assistants, from working at the famous Kalighat temple located in the state of West Bengal, “No more than six designated priests called the sevayats shall be allowed into the sanctum sanctorum of the temple…