GO TO SOURCE UTTARANCHAL, INDIA, May 16, 2002: The Kailash-Mansarovar route along the Pithoragarh-Dharchoola road in Uttaranchal has been cut off following landslides triggered by heavy rains disrupting vehicular traffic, officials said in Pithoragarh on Thursday. Heavy rains, accompanied by a hailstorm, lashed Pithoragarh district on Wednesday evening causing the landslides, which blocked a four-metre stretch of the road, they…
GO TO SOURCE ORISSA, INDIA, May 17, 2002: A scheduled “horse sacrifice” in the village of Juna Padia, about 430 km southwest of Calcutta was stopped by India minister of Minister for Culture and Animal Care, Maneka Gandhi. She, along with local officials, confiscated the horses. The Washington Times (“source” above) and the South China Morning Post reported April 15…
GO TO SOURCE DELHI, INDIA, May 11, 2002: Officials in India are considering categorizing and labeling all cosmetics and personal hygiene products as vegetarian or non-vegetarian. The practicalities of implementing the idea are now being considered by a technical committee and the courts. Many Hindus in India are strictly vegetarian for religious reasons — and some pro-Hindu political groups often…
Source: The Hindu TIRUVANNAMALAI, INDIA, May 11, 2002: Ninety percent of the renovation work has been completed on the famed Arunachaleswara Temple in Tiruvannamalai and arrangements are being made for the kumbhabhishekam, or rededication ceremony, to be held on June 27. Presiding over a meeting on Saturday to review the arrangements for the kumbhabhishekam, PC Ramasamy, Minister for the Hindu…
GO TO SOURCE GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, May 17, 2002: From May 8 to November 17, 2002, the Musee d’ethnographie of Geneva Switzerland presents Bharatanatyam: The Dance of the Gods. The exhibit, the first of its kind in Europe, includes interactive displays, workshops and dance performance by Manjula Lusti Narasimhan and her school Silambam a Geneve. At the exhibit the museum launches…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 17, 2002: In one of the deadliest attacks India has witnessed in recent years, three men disguised in army fatigues killed 30 people and wounded 48 with sprays of automatic gunfire in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, which both India and Pakistan claim. The attack could provoke a military retaliation by India,…
GO TO SOURCE ANDOLI, INDIA, May 16, 2002: This New York Times article is an example of the Western media picking up the biases of the Indian press. Originally HPI had not planned to include it, but as several readers mentioned it to us in both a positive and negative light, we include it here in part: “Just beyond the…
GO TO SOURCE CHENNAI, INDIA, May 16, 2002: Do you want to be a healthy dancer? Yoga specialist E.R. Gopalakrishnan’s latest book explaining yoga practice for dancers could guide you to be one. Gopalakrishnan says that the book is a result of his work with dancers over the years. Having worked with his daughter who is student of dance, he…
GO TO SOURCE WILSON, WYOMING, May 16, 2002: Aama’s Journey: A Pilgrimage Between Continents and Cultures is an illustrated lecture presentation by Broughton Coburn, a best-selling author and Harvard graduate who has spent two of the past three decades in the Himalayas. This program headlined America’s Knife and Fork Clubs (35 appearances) and has thrilled museums, associations, social groups, universities,…
GO TO SOURCE KATHMANDU, NEPAL, May 14, 2002: On June 11, 2002, a group of pilgrims will head to Mansarovar and Mt. Kailash in Tibet. The yatra, or pilgrimage, is organized by Parmarth Niketan ashram in Rishikesh. It will include the official inauguration of the hospital and ashram in the Kailash area which has been built by India Heritage Research…