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admin | July 28, 2010
Honolulu, June 27, 2010
By this time many of us have come to know of what happened to the sacred Healing Stones at Wahiawa on the island of Oahu on Friday, June 11. On that day a local group claiming rights to the Healing Stone removed the Healing Stone from its present location and took it [...]
admin | July 28, 2010
Namaste everyone, I just found out your plight of loosing your stones to Hawaiian natives. I am an artist, painting ceilings and artwork in Hindu Temples here in the States. I found the story quite remarkable in the fact that knowing Hindus like I do, you have given up this sacred stone in a most [...]
click on the title to read>admin | January 29, 2010
Indians in Hawai’i
By Dipankar Sengupta
“Does it ever occur to you why the names of all Hawaiian queens end in lani, for example Kapiolani, Liliokalani?”
“No.”
“Because the Hawaiians pronounced the letter ‘r’ as ‘l’; there are many such examples.
Hawaiians must have had some Indian connections.”
I got the hint. Rani in Hindi means “queen” but I was [...]
admin | November 12, 2009
By Mr. Inder Kapoor
I remember an incident about the use of telephones during my long career of journalism in India. It happened when the Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited India in the later part of the fifties. I was then working with the Press Truss of India (PTI) as a junior reporter. Mr. Khrushchev was [...]
admin | January 29, 2009
By Dipankar Sengupta
The one hundred fourteenth and fifteenth cantos (sargah) of the Chapter on War, (Yudhya kandya) in Maharshi Valmiki’s Ramayana describe the post war scenario in Lanka. The great demon warrior Ravana has been vanquished, his last rites performed and Bibhisana, Ravana’s younger brother has been sworn in as the new king of Lanka [...]
admin | August 29, 2008
ORAL TRADITION
By Dipankar Sengupta
It is a common belief that education and literacy are closely related and one can not be looked upon in isolation of the other. However, this axiom is not found to be true in some poorer countries where the illiteracy rate is high and yet the people are surprisingly educated when it [...]
admin | January 29, 2008
ByDipankar Sengupta
In December 2005 I was in Delhi to visit my sister. My nephew picked me up at the railway station. With him was his 6 year old son. As we were driving in my nephew’s car his cell phone rang. His wife was on the line. With one hand on the steering wheel, head [...]
click on the title to read>admin | January 29, 2007
Editor’s Note: The last publication of Samachar (July 2007) contained an article titled “Cell Phone – How India Handles It”. It drew the attention of a few readers, who called or e-mailed to tell their personal experiences in India related to telephones. Their stories were fascinating because they were real and unique. I have taken [...]
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