GO TO SOURCE KOLKATA, INDIA, April 29, 2001: The police arrested 72 devotees and monks of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) who went on the rampage and clashed inside its Kolkata temple office on Saturday, according to this report from Times of India. An assistant commissioner of police and four constables were injured while trying to separate the…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, April 27, 2001: The international Jain Sangh, based in New Jersey, observed the 2,600th birth anniversary of Lord Mahivir, the 24th and last Thirthankar in the Jain religion. More than 700 people attended the April 8 celebration held at Knights of Columbus hall in South River, N.J. The program included prayers, pujas, a…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 28, 2001: The president of India’s 500,000-strong Federation of Farmers Association, P. Chengal Reddy, told a conference in Delhi that he believes India could increase its agricultural output by an additional 100,000,000 tons of food annually. He advocates better education of farmers in more productive methods. As well, he sees a great potential…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, April 25, 2001: Under prompting from President Bush to restructure the Head Start Program, American educators, parents and community leaders are looking to two very different European models for guidance and ideas. It has been proposed that the Head Start Program provide earlier reading instruction and if that be the case, the French have dedicated…
GO TO SOURCE PUNE, INDIA, April, 27, 2001: A model to predict earthquakes, developed by a California-based scholar of Chinese origin, Zhonghao Shaou, uses the concept of “earthquake clouds.” The same concept is dealt with in detail in the 32nd chapter of Varahamihira’s “Brihat Samhita.” The greatness of the Ujjain-born scholar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer Varahamihira (505-587 CE) is widely…
Source: The Daily Pioneer NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 24, 2001: A Norwegian man arrested and jailed in India for smuggling heroin has made such a remarkable transformation through the Vipasana meditation program the jail offers that the Norwegian government is looking into instituting the same program in its jails. Vipasana is a Buddhist meditation method involving long hours of meditation…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, April 21, 2001: A bland red curry known as chicken tikka masala has joined the ranks of pizza and chow mein in culinary history. That is, just as until a few decades ago no Italian in Italy had seen a pizza, and no Chinese in China ever tasted “chow mein,” now the British have not…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, April 25, 2001: A recent outbreak of violence in West Yorkshire County and Bradford has led to controversy as to the cause. This Times of India article is just the latest of several articles that discuss the incident. By appearances the looting, fire-bombing and street fighting could be attributed to racial tensions between Hindus and…
GO TO SOURCE PARIS, FRANCE, April 26, 2001: Lord Siva continues to fascinate the French literary world that has already seen the publication of numerous books on Him. Two more books on differing aspects of Siva have joined the list. “Le religion de Shiva” (The religion of Siva) which tries to explain Hinduism through the famed temple art of South…
GO TO SOURCE SINGAPORE, APRIL 15,2001: The tiny city-state of Singapore, with a scant four million population, is encouraging its citizens to have more babies. Concerned with its declining birthrate, the government has developed monetary and workplace incentives to persuade people to have larger families. The government is offering cash for couples who have a second and third child, extended…