Source: Press Release AMRITAPURI, INDIA, October 9, 2001: At the request of the European organizers in light of the tense world situation, Mata Amritananda has canceled her coming programs in Finland and Zurich. Amma leaves here on October 13 for the tour, which will now include Germany, Holland, England, France, Spain and Italy. She will return here in December after…
Source: The Hindu BANGALORE, INDIA, October 7, 2001: The Bangalore Gayan Samaj has plans of starting a institute of advanced studies and research in music, Mr. H. Kamalanath, President of the Samaj, announced. “We hope to inaugurate the institute in three years, coinciding with the Gayan Samaj’s centenary celebrations,” Mr. Kamalanath said. The Samaj recently honored Ms. Maya Rao, Kathak…
GO TO SOURCE TROY, MICHIGAN, October 4, 2001: When the Michigan Association of Physicians of Indian Origin met in Troy after the September 11th terrorist attacks, the focus of conversation was on how south Asians will fare in America. Concerned that their community will be mistakenly identified with the Middle Eastern terrorists, many are reluctant to appear different looking. Dr.…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, USA, October 8, 2001: Since shortly after the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center, New Yorkers have been creating impromptu shrines, memorializing the victims. People have placed photographs of the dead and missing, together with flowers and American flags, in many places, including the walls in Grand Central Terminal, Pennsylvania Station and the…
Source: Times of India GRAKHPUR, INDIA, October 7, 2001: The state government has regularized the service of 719 medical officers of Ayurvedic and Unani systems, both traditional medicines of India. UP Minister for Medical Education, NKS Gaur said that US$1.46 million had been released under the Prime Minister Rozgar Yojna to purchase ayurvedic and Unani medicines. The state cabinet has…
GO TO SOURCE RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, GERMANY, October 8, 2001: The tens of thousands of food packets being dropped over Afghanistan are all vegetarian “Meals Ready to Eat” or MRE. The packets contained a day’s ration of red beans, rice, fruit bars, peanut butter and strawberry jam, providing at least 2,200 calories. When the meals were developed for this relief…
GO TO SOURCE STOCKHOLM, October 11, 2001: Trinidad-born British writer V.S. Naipaul won the 2001 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday. Naipaul, long tipped for the prestigious award, won the $1 million prize for combining existing genres into a style of his own in works that compel readers “to see the presence of suppressed histories,” the Swedish Academy said in…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 4, 2001: A new report, published in the October issue of the Journal of Nutrition, underscores obesity as a growing nutritional problem. Several studies since the late 1990’s have shown that obesity is on the rise in India, particularly among more affluent women living in urban areas. In a country where more than…
GO TO SOURCE LESHAN, CHINA, October 5, 2001: After the destruction of its most famous archaeological monuments — the giant stone figures known as the Bamiyan Buddhas — by the Taliban-controlled government in Afghanistan, one of the buddhas is rising again in Western China. A team of 300 workmen are carving a replica figure into a cliff face in Schuan.…
GO TO SOURCE MRITAPURI, INDIA, October 8, 2001: Has the atheist Chief Minister Antony become a devotee of the woman-saint Mata Amritananda Mayi? Antony, a member of the Congress party, would not call himself a devotee but he admitted that he had found solace in the presence of the Mata, who is lovingly called Amma. “I am no believer nor…