GO TO SOURCE BANGALORE, INDIA, Sept. 18, 2001: Nineteen-year-old Vinod Shastry, a second-generation Indian American, on his second visit to India, at the Jana Seva Vidya Kendra, a residential boys school 20 kilometers from Bangalore, is reciting from Tulsidas’s epic “Ram Charitra Manas.” Sixteen-year-old Mihir Pitodia, a Kenyan citizen of Indian origin on his first visit here, is attempting a…
GO TO SOURCE KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, September 17, 2001: Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, the chief of Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), says he was worried about the declining Indian population as it could directly reduce the political voice of the community. He said the community’s population of 10.3 per cent of all Malaysians has now been cut to 9.4 per…
Source: The Hindu TIRUPATI, INDIA, September 16, 2001: Coinciding with the annual Brahmotsavam of Lord Venkateswara, the All-India Crafts Mela will be held at Tirupati from September 19 to October 3. The venue of the mela is the Urban Haat site, jointly promoted by the Central Government’s Ministry of Textiles and State’s Tourism Department at a cost of US$342,500 on…
GO TO SOURCE NEW BURNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, September 17, 2001: Manavi, a South Asian organization dedicated to empowering women from the subcontinent who live in the US, has announced a legal clinic for women who have experienced violence in their lives in two new locations. Manavi’s legal clinics provide women with the option of meeting with an immigration and family…
GO TO SOURCE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, September 19, 2001: Chakrapani Ullal, the foremost exponent of Hindu astrology in the United States, offers his analysis of the September 11 terrorist attack on America at “source” above.
GO TO SOURCE UBLI, INDIA, September 16, 2001: The president of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Ashok Singhal, has declared that he is against the direct involvement of India in the predicted “war.” He said the Indian land should never become a battlefield when “Christians and Muslims are fighting it out”. Acknowledging that the fight between Christians and Muslims was continuing since…
GO TO SOURCE ALISO VIEJO, CALIFORNIA, Sept. 16, 2001: When the brand new campus of Soka University of America opened its doors here for admissions for this fall, it decided to dedicate one of its classroom buildings to the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi, naming it “Gandhi Hall.” Gandhi’s grandson, Dr. Arun Gandhi, who had flown here from Memphis, Tenn., especially…
GO TO SOURCE GAUHATI, INDIA, September 15, 2001: A banned pesticide used by villagers in remote northeastern India was blamed Saturday for the death last month of 15 wild elephants. Investigator Kushal Konwar Sharma said forensic tests revealed the presence of the pesticide Dimecron in the elephants’ carcasses, which were discovered in and around Nameri National Park in Assam state.…