GO TO SOURCE JAKARTA, INDONESIA, April 14, 2002: Bali’s normally solemn Day of Silence, a Hindu religious day of introspection, turned rowdy at the weekend when devotees went on a rampage in two villages. Brawls broke out during processions of the giant Ogoh-Ogoh puppets late on Friday, the eve of the Nyepi festival, leaving at least four people injured, including…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, April 14, 2002: “For a species that has transformed mating into an obsession, human beings over the centuries have shown an abiding interest in the opposite of sex — celibacy,” begins this interesting article. “The practice is in the spotlight these days because of the molestation scandal which has rekindled debate over whether…
GO TO SOURCE SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, April 8, 2002: While the hot dog (a beef sausage in a bread roll, not a cooked canine) remains the overwhelming favorite at American ballparks (where baseball and American football games are played), fans are increasingly snacking on broiled tofu, boiled soybeans and other vegetarian fare. So big is the trend that People for…
GO TO SOURCE TRINIDAD, WEST INDIES, April 14, 2002: The Indo-Caribbean Cultural Council (ICC) is inviting writers to submit their work for publication in its Indian Arrival Day 2002 magazine. This Indian heritage day, which commemorates the arrival of indentured laborers from India to Trinidad, will be observed as a national holiday on May 30, 2002. Writers who wish to…
GO TO SOURCE UNITED KINGDOM, April 5, 2002: Alarming research published recently in the British Medical Journal has revealed that a significant number of medical drugs sold in south-east Asia are counterfeit. Scientists have found that drugs used to treat malaria are fake, that a vaccine to prevent meningitis was made from tap water and that birth control pills were…
Source: Hinduism Today Worry kills more people than work because more people worry than work.
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, April 14, 2002: As political parties vie with each other in expressing concern over the plight of communal violence victims in Gujarat, Kashmiri Pandits today criticized the political spectrum for “maintaining a deafening silence” over the sufferings faced by a populace of more than 350,000 after their migration from the Kashmir Valley due to militancy…
GO TO SOURCE AHMEDABAD, INDIA, April 14, 2002: When communal violence tore the state apart, Someshwar Pandya attempted to keep the social fabric together, according to this report in the Times of India. On Saturday morning, Pandya, of Sardarpura, a village where 32 members of the Muslim community were burnt alive on March 1, was attacked by six persons armed…
GO TO SOURCE BANGALORE, INDIA, March 15, 2002: Kaushalendra (“source” above), secretary for the Nagpur RSS offices, writes, “The meeting of the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha held at Jansewa Avasi Vidya Kendra, Bangalore on March 15, 16 and 17, 2002. Sarkaryawah Shri Mohan Bhagwat presided over the meeting. Param Pujya Sarsanghchalak Ma. K. S. Sudarshan and Ex-Sarsanghchalak Ma. Rajjubhaiyaji were…
Source: The Hindu NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 14, 2002: India’s President, K.R. Narayanan, today released Tamil Word-2001, a Tamil word processor developed by Tamil Arasi, at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan here. While a copy of the word processor was presented to the President by M. Natarajan, Editor, Tamil Arasi, the Editor of Viduthalai Tamil Diary, K. Veeramani, received…