30 seconds over (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Here’s a really interesting mix of rock, improv, drone, raga and jazz from a NYC-based band called Prince Rama of Ayodhya. I caught onto them while writing a show preview for Philly weekly, not of the band itself, which played Philadelphia on October 18, but of a benefit to help them raise money to replace instruments which had been stolen at this earlier gig. The benefit is on November...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The saints were reacting to the fatwa issued by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind at the Deoband seminary that Muslims should not sing Vande Mataram as the national song is against Islam.
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and workers collected crores of rupees promising that they would build a temple for Lord Rama at Ayodhya, but failed to keep their word. Where did the money go? The BJP was paying the price for its sins, he said.Mr. Gowda said he and his family members were being targeted for a long time. Mr. Kumaraswamy and Leader of the JD(S) Legislature Party and former Minister H.D. Revanna had undergone...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... a grave offence. Shall we expect some change in the attitude of the city police? M.V. Krishna Rao Ayodhya Nagar No to grading system I am unable to understand the concept of grading system to be implemented in the State-run schools on the lines of the schools run by the CBSE from the next academic year. The government proposes to give grades from A1 to D2 to the students of SSC, based on...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and Mayor M. Subramanian visited G.N. Chetty Road in T. Nagar, Ayodhya Nagar off Kamarajar Salai, and some parts of Choolai. By evening, Corporation officials said 60,000 food packets were distributed to people living in flooded areas in Tondiarpet, Pulianthope and Nungambakkam zones. The civic body also conducted health camps in all 10 zones and would be...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... at Ballabgarh near Delhi. Fourteen people were killed and around 25 injured when a speeding Gonda-Ayodhya passenger train rammed into a truck at an unmanned level crossing at Gonda in Uttar Pradesh on November 1.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and Mayor M. Subramanian visited G.N. Chetty Road in T. Nagar, Ayodhya Nagar off Kamarajar Salai, and some parts of Choolai.By evening, Corporation officials said 60,000 food packets were distributed to people living in flooded areas in Tondiarpet, Pulianthope and Nungambakkam zones. The civic body also conducted health camps in all 10 zones and would be...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind had on Tuesday asked members of the community not to recite Vande Mataram on the ground that some verses of the National Song are against the tenets of Islam.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Why should Modi apologise, asks Mohan Bhagwat Neena Vyas Says new BJP chief will not be from among four ‘gen next’ leaders NDA, UPA failed to give Pakistan a decisive response: RSS chiefRules out settlement of Ayodhya dispute by allowing temple and mosqueNEW DELHI: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has categorically stated that the next BJP president will not be from among the...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... Later, Chandra Shekhar befriended him to lead criticism of the opening up of economy. He went to Ayodhya after demolition of the Babri mosque and came back convinced that the only way to detoxify the hearts of Hindus was to return to Gandhi. In recent months, he was worried about decimation of the opposition. All his life he used his pen to expose the powerful and the mighty, but in the...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Kusma (South Bastar), Nov. 2: There are two myths about the Dandakaranya forests of South Bastar. The first, that this was the jungle bivouac of the exiled prince of Ayodhya and his wife. The second ' less epic but more insistent ' that it's part of a welfare state.
rediff News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... never apologise for the Gujarat massacre and, the Babri Masjid [ ] cannot be reconstructed in Ayodhya.He launched an attack on Union Home Minister P Chidambaram [ ], saying he 'speaks good words but lacks in action' and disagreed with him on tackling the Maoists with force. He said the Sangh does not favour use of the army against them.Bhagwat said the government committed a mistake by not...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... Chidambaram condemned the demolition of the mediaeval Babri mosque in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya town in 1992, calling it 'a manifestation of religious fanaticism and an act of extreme prejudice.' The 16th-century mosque was demolished by Hindu mobs, triggering bloody communal riots nationwide which claimed more than 2,000 lives. Hindu groups believe the mosque was located at a site where their...
