Gaurangsinh Parmar
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
News
Hindus in Sindh (Pakistan) attacked after boy drinks water from mosque cooler
PTI, Jul 13, 2010, 01.38am IST
ISLAMABAD: Several members of the minority Hindu community were attacked and forced out of their homes in Pakistan's southern Sindh province after a boy drank water from a facility outside a mosque.
About 60 Hindu men, women and children were recently forced to abandon their homes at Memon Goth in Karachi, the capital of Sindh, after influential tribesmen of the area objected to the boy drinking water from a cooler.
"All hell broke loose when my son, Dinesh, who looks after chickens in a farm, drank water from a cooler outside a mosque. Upon seeing him do that, the people of the area started beating him up," a Hindu man named Meerumal told The News daily.
"Later, around 150 tribesmen attacked us, injuring seven of our people — Samo, Mohan, Hero, Chanu, Sadu, Heera, and Guddi — who were taken to the Jinnah Hospital," he said.
The Hindus who were forced out of their homes have taken refuge in a cattle pen. One of the injured, Heera, said about 400 Hindu families are being threatened to vacate the area.
"Our people are even scared of going out of their houses. We are also putting up with living in the filthy (cattle) pen because we cannot go home for fear of being killed," said Heera, who too is living in a cattle shed.
"A trivial incident led to riots between the people of the area. Since both the communities happened to be illiterate, the matter just flared up," said the chief of Memon Goth police station.
Sindh's Minority Affairs Minister Mohan Lal has assured the Hindu community that it will receive full government protection. "I have directed the (district police chief) and the SHO to ensure that these people go back to their houses safely," he said. Lal said the culprits will be dealt with severely.
Gaurangsinh Parmar
09925800830
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
PRIDE
Sanskrit thriving in UK schools
June 30, 2010
Jyeshtha Krushna Chaturthi, Kaliyug Varsha 5112
London: Sanskrit may be resource starved and may find fewer pupils in India, but there are schools and universities in the UK where the language is thriving.
At the St James Junior School in London, the number of students wanting to learn the language has grown by leaps and bounds.
This chain of schools has been teaching Sanskrit since 1975. Over the years, to their surprise, they have found an increasing number of children keen on learning the ancient language, even though the script and pronunciation is difficult for English speakers.
As young students here recite Sanskrit verses from the Upanishads at the Annual Sanskrit Speech Competition, proud parents and teachers applauding their efforts.
"It gives them brilliant linguistic training. Sanskrit scriptures are inspiring and full of philosophical concepts, which is why we teach it," said Warwick Jessop, the head of the school's Sanskrit department.
When asked if they find learning the language hard, most students said Sanskrit was their favourite as they enjoy the classes.
"Learning Sanskrit is unique. As not many people speak it now, it is special that we get to learn such a language. I enjoy learning Sanskrit because I suppose we are one of the few schools that study it and I feel that it benefits you in lots of different ways. As you saw, it helps in improving pronunciation and diction.
I would say the spiritual benefits are also quite high. There are lots of different stories like the Ramayana and Mahabharata and there are lots of different ways of describing what was happening in the world ages ago," said a student of the school.
The curriculum at the James Junior School is set for student aged between four and 18. After completing their levels here, students can go for courses at prestigious universities like Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh.
Gaurangsinh Parmar
http://www.shivajimaharaj.org/
June 30, 2010
Jyeshtha Krushna Chaturthi, Kaliyug Varsha 5112
London: Sanskrit may be resource starved and may find fewer pupils in India, but there are schools and universities in the UK where the language is thriving.
At the St James Junior School in London, the number of students wanting to learn the language has grown by leaps and bounds.
This chain of schools has been teaching Sanskrit since 1975. Over the years, to their surprise, they have found an increasing number of children keen on learning the ancient language, even though the script and pronunciation is difficult for English speakers.
As young students here recite Sanskrit verses from the Upanishads at the Annual Sanskrit Speech Competition, proud parents and teachers applauding their efforts.
"It gives them brilliant linguistic training. Sanskrit scriptures are inspiring and full of philosophical concepts, which is why we teach it," said Warwick Jessop, the head of the school's Sanskrit department.
When asked if they find learning the language hard, most students said Sanskrit was their favourite as they enjoy the classes.
"Learning Sanskrit is unique. As not many people speak it now, it is special that we get to learn such a language. I enjoy learning Sanskrit because I suppose we are one of the few schools that study it and I feel that it benefits you in lots of different ways. As you saw, it helps in improving pronunciation and diction.
I would say the spiritual benefits are also quite high. There are lots of different stories like the Ramayana and Mahabharata and there are lots of different ways of describing what was happening in the world ages ago," said a student of the school.
The curriculum at the James Junior School is set for student aged between four and 18. After completing their levels here, students can go for courses at prestigious universities like Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh.
Gaurangsinh Parmar
http://www.shivajimaharaj.org/
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
India v/s World
THE TIMES OF INDIA.
India foils Chinese bid to patent 'pudina'( Mint. )
India foils Chinese bid to patent 'pudina'( Mint. )
NEW DELHI: India has foiled a major Chinese bio-piracy bid to patent the use of medicinal plants 'pudina' (mint) and 'kalamegha' (andrographis) for the treatment of H5N1 avian influenza or bird flu.
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), with the help of India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), dug out formulations from ancient Ayurveda and Unani texts, like 'Cakradattah', 'Bhaisajya Ratnavali', 'Kitaab-al-Haawi-fil-Tibb' and 'Qaraabaadeen Azam wa Akmal', dating back to the 9th century, to show that both 'pudina' and 'kalamegha' have been widely used in India since ages for influenza and epidemic fevers.
After receiving exhaustive evidence from CSIR that confirmed India's stand, the European Patent Office (EPO) on June 10 cancelled the decision to grant patent to Livzon, a major Chinese pharmaceutical company, on the medicinal properties of pudina and kalamegha for treating bird flu.
It all began when Livzon, on January 19, 2007 filed a patent application at EPO claiming usefulness of pudina and kalamegha for the treatment of bird flu to be novel. Impressed with the data, EPO decided to grant patent to Livzon on February 25, 2010.
However, on April 27, director of TKDL Dr V K Gupta shot off a letter to the EPO informing the examiners that the medicinal properties of pudina and kalamegha have been long known in Indian traditional medicine.
The letter said, "The patent application number EP1849473, titled Chinese traditional medicine composition for treatment of avian influenza, method for preparation, and application thereof, may kindly be referred to wherein the usefulness of andrographis (kalamegha) and mint (pudina) for treatment of fever, detoxification and for the treatment of avian influenza, has been claimed to be novel."
The letter added, "In the TKDL, there are several references where andrographis and mint are used for the treatment of influenza and epidemic fever. Hence, there does not seem to be any novelty or inventive step involved in the claims made in the above referred patent application."
Following the letter, the EPO set up a three-member panel to study the evidence. On June 10, the panel decided to cancel the Chinese patent claim.
TKDL is a collaborative project between CSIR and Union health ministry's department of Ayush.
In 2000, a TKDL expert group estimated that about 2,000 wrong patents concerning Indian systems of medicine were being granted every year at the international level, mainly due to the fact that India's traditional medicine knowledge existed in languages such as Sanskrit, Hindi, Arabic, Urdu, Tamil etc. These were neither accessible nor understood by the patent examiners at the international patent offices.
TKDL, therefore, overcame these language and format barriers by scientifically converting and making available information contents in 34 million A4 size pages of the ancient texts into five international languages -- English, Japanese, French, German and Spanish.
( Great job done. Congrats !!
But we are losing out on many other fronts like our Turmeric, Neem, Asafodita, several cattle breeds etc., Needs concerted action by nominated and funded nodal agencies. NBS.)
''SWABHIMAN'' a group of Lions..
Monday, June 14, 2010
Swabhiman
Namaskar
Apne Bharat deshne jab bhi swabhiman se sochna kam kiya hai tab dushmano ke prahaar ne jyada nuksan pahuchaya hai. Aaj to hum swabhiman sunyata ki charam sima par pahuch gaye hai & uske results dekh sakte hai.
Hamare sanskaro ko hamari kamjori samja gaya hai. mitro, aaj fir se sina tankar, apne sanskaro ko apni takat banakar duniya par chha jane ka samay aa gaya hai. Hum sab saath milkar Maa Bharti ko pun: unka gaurav dilaye.
''Swabhiman'' ne yah sankalp liya hai. Aao, puri takatse hamare is karya me apna yogdan prasthapit karo. We r waiting 4 ur reply....
Bharat Mata ki Jay
Gaurangsinh Parmar
09925800830
swabhiman@live.in
Apne Bharat deshne jab bhi swabhiman se sochna kam kiya hai tab dushmano ke prahaar ne jyada nuksan pahuchaya hai. Aaj to hum swabhiman sunyata ki charam sima par pahuch gaye hai & uske results dekh sakte hai.
Hamare sanskaro ko hamari kamjori samja gaya hai. mitro, aaj fir se sina tankar, apne sanskaro ko apni takat banakar duniya par chha jane ka samay aa gaya hai. Hum sab saath milkar Maa Bharti ko pun: unka gaurav dilaye.
''Swabhiman'' ne yah sankalp liya hai. Aao, puri takatse hamare is karya me apna yogdan prasthapit karo. We r waiting 4 ur reply....
Bharat Mata ki Jay
Gaurangsinh Parmar
09925800830
swabhiman@live.in
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