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Archive for the ‘Asia’ Category September 1-2, 2010 August 13-14, 2009 In the house of Vasudeva will the Supreme Lord, the original transcendental person, personally appear… Bhagavata Purana, 1:23 After midnight, we’re gonna let it all hang down. Eric Clapton, After Midnight Though worshipped differently across many Hindu sects, Krishna is one of the holiest figures–if not [...]  August 24, 2010 August 13, 2011 All across India sisters tie special colored bracelets of thread around their brothers’ wrists, as a symbol of protection. Likewise, the thread reminds the brother of his pledge and duty to protect his sister. The threaded bracelet is called a rakhi and the holiday is Raksha Bandhan, a Hindu [...]  August 15
The Twentieth Century witnessed over 140 countries gain independence. [35 of them in the years 1960 and 1991 alone]. But few, if any, stirred such emotion, involved so much conflict, changed and disrupted so many lives, inspired so many future leaders, and so fundamentally altered the world we live in, both [...]  August 14 We are convinced there can be no peace and progress in India if we, the Muslims are duped into a Hindu dominated federation in which we cannot be the masters of our own destiny and captains of our own souls. Choudhary Rahmat Ali
Choudhary Rahmat Ali was not the leader of [...]  2nd Sunday in August
All right you cucurbitaceans, you’ve waited all year for this! Today, the second Sunday of August, the country of Turkmenistan celebrates, not independence, not victory or freedom or liberty, but the glorious, almighty melon. Yes, melons. Now, I know what you’re thinking. “Melon Day? Shouldn’t we honor the melon, the [...]  May 28
Azerbaijanis have been celebrating May 28 as Independence Day for the past 90 years–with a brief intermission during that whole 70-year Soviet occupation thing. After the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917 Azerbaijan joined ranks with Armenia and Georgia to form the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic. Faced with the reality that [...]  May 16
Today is the anniversary of the Farakka Long March in 1976. The march protested the construction of the Farakka dam, aka the Farakka Barrage. The dam is located just 11 miles from the border of Bangladesh, and it diverts up to 200,000 gallons of water per second from the Ganges River [...] |
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