GO TO SOURCE MULAMKUNNATHKAVU, INDIA, October 29, 2002: After 19 years, a yaagam is being organized at Mulamkunnathkavu, Trissur district, for April 2003. Performed by Rig Veda expert Vaidikan Thekkat Neelakandan Namboothiri, training for the yaagam began in October of 2002. The purpose of the ceremony is to cleanse the environment by burning ghee, seeds and healing herbs. Readers may…
Source: New Jersey Media Group BERGEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, November 28, 2002: This heart-warming article describes a Hindu family living life following Hindu values and ideals. Kokila and Kishor Vyas were honored by the New Jersey Parents Foundation last July as Parents of the Year. Kokila recalls a message delivered by a Hindu priest at a festival in 1986 who…
GO TO SOURCE NADI, FIJI, October 27, 2002: The spring of 2003 will mark the 100th Anniversary of the first arrival of South Indians to Fiji from Chennai. To commemorate the occasion, the India Sanmarga Ikya Sangam has set aside a half-acre parcel of land where they plan to build a museum. Founded in 1926, the Sangam runs 26 primary…
GO TO SOURCE KOLKATA, INDIA, Thursday, December 5, 2002: Devotees visiting the 150-year-old Dakshineswar Kali Temple near Kolkata (Calcutta) may soon be insured against terrorist attacks. Though properties of temples are often insured against theft, this is the first temple to cover devotees as well under an anti-terrorist insurance umbrella. The temple, draws five thousand devotees daily and at its…
GO TO SOURCE LUCKNOW, INDIA, December 6, 2002: Over 50 akharas (monastic orders) and ashrams in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal will soon prepare themselves for a new role when hundreds of thousands of Naga Sadhus associated with them would take up the security of temples and religious shrines in the country. “The Naga sadhus, numbering over 500,000 in the country,…
Source: News Report HAMM, GERMANY, October 2, 2002: The Ruhr Valley in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is well known for its coal mining and steel tempering. And from now on it will also be associated with Europe’s largest Hindu Temple. Dedicated to Sri Kamakshi Ambal, the temple was officially opened in Hamm-Uentrop, an industrial zone just outside the city, in ceremonies…
GO TO SOURCE MADISON, U.S.A., December 8, 2002: The Governor of Wisconsin has declared the week of December 9 as “Interfaith Awareness Week,” with the main purpose of the celebration to develop awareness and establish mutual understanding and respect among religions. The American Hindu Association, along with six other faith groups, is participating. The inaugurating events will be on Tuesday,…
Source: News Report BANGALORE, INDIA, December 2, 2002: The discovery of long-forgotten underwater settlements off the coast of Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, by American marine archaeologists has pushed the antiquity of civilization in South India back by a few millennia and showed a link with Vedic civilization. This finding was voiced here on Monday by the noted American scholar in the…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 30, 2002: A unique concept has been masterminded by Klaus Schwab, president of the World Economic Forum, which will manifest at Davos, Switzerland, January 24, 2003. Business leaders of the WEF have collaborated with forty spiritual leaders, representing a variety of world religions, to bring spirituality to the forum which, up until 9-11…
Source: Austin American Stateman AUSTIN, U.S.A., November 28, 2002: This year’s 18th Ecumenical Thanksgiving Gathering sponsored by the Austin Area Inter-religious Ministries was held at the Barsana Dham Hindu temple. Attended by over 1,000 leaders from the Catholic, Episcopal, Protestant denominations, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam and Hindu faiths, the gathering demonstrated America’s religious freedom. Respecting Hindu tradition, everybody attending the ceremony…