GO TO SOURCE MADURAI, INDIA, May 6, 2002: The International Tamil Conference, which concluded here on Sunday, requested Tamil Nadu government to make Tamil compulsory at “all levels.” A resolution passed at the conference, held by the International Tamil Integration Society, wanted the government to formulate an act in this regard. It urged the government to make Tamil medium compulsory…
GO TO SOURCE MUMBAI, INDIA, May 6, 2002: Hindustani classical music’s living legend Pandit Jasraj (73 yrs old) told the magazine “God And I” that his first introduction to God was when he was just 14, in the year 1944. He told of being asked along with his brother to accompany their music guru Pandit Maniramji to Ahmedabad to sing.…
GO TO SOURCE DELHI, INDIA, May 6, 2002: Manushi, the leading women’s rights magazine of India, is holding a conference on the Tehelka expose and the Gujarat riots. According to their press release, “As evidence of an unprecedented state-sanctioned pogrom in Gujarat mounts, instead of curbing and punishing those involved in the violence, the government has transferred honest officers, physically…
GO TO SOURCE SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, April 18, 2002: When T-shirts depicting Asian people in a demeaning manner appeared on the shelves of Abercrombie and Fitch in the Bay area in April of this year, Asians have reacted accordingly. One of the shirts has a slogan that says, “Wong Brothers Laundry Service…Two Wongs Can Make It White.” Two smiling Chinese…
GO TO SOURCE OSWEGO, NEW YORK, May 3, 2002: A teenager was sentenced to three to nine years in prison Friday for burning down a Sikh temple in anger over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Joshua Centrone, 18, is the second of four teenagers to plead guilty in connection with the Nov. 18 fire at the Gobind Sadan USA Temple…
Source: Press Release PETALING JAYA, MALAYSIA, May 5, 2002: The following are excerpts from the keynote address by A. Vaithilingam, president, Malaysia Hindu Sangam, at their 25th annual general meting. “On the religious front, the Sangam together with other organizations have started the training of teachers program. En. M. Batumalai from the Sangam and Dr. N.S. Rajendran of the Malaysian…
GO TO SOURCE UNITED KINGDOM, April 18, 2002: A study conducted by gynecologist Dr. Claus Yding Anderson and his team at the University Hospital of Copenhagen on 11,800 infants born in Japan and Denmark over a seven-month period has some interesting results. Three control groups were chosen based on the consumption of cigarettes consumed around the time of conception and…
GO TO SOURCE NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, April 28, 2002: Strathfield Library Service is conducting an oral history project on the Tamil community to document the experiences of this migrant group. The “Tamils And Their Neighbors Oral History Project” has been funded by a Library Development Grant from the Library Council of New South Wales. The population of the Strathfield…
GO TO SOURCE FIJI, May 2, 2002: Suicide, mainly by ethnic Indian women, has become Fiji’s biggest killer, a mental health expert here said. The principal medical officer at the Saint Giles Psychiatric Hospital here, Dr Odille Chan, presented the latest official statistics to a youth conference and a statement was issued by the government outlining her findings. Indians make…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 29, 2002: Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, the Kanchi Shankaracharya, says that by imposing President’s rule in Gujarat, peace could be restored to the disturbed state. He spoke to Narayani Ganesh of the Times of India in New Delhi, fresh from a trip to Ayodhya. Here are excerpts from the interview: “I went to Ayodhya…