- ऋषि पाराशर ने लिखा है कि सतयुग, त्रेता और द्वापर की विधियां भिन्न-भिन्न थीं और कलियुग में भी ये भिन्न होंगी। युग और काल के अनुरूप ही नियमों का पालन करना चाहिए। गोत्र के संबंध में अपनी बात सही साबित करने के लिए जो प्राचीन धर्म ग्रंथों का उदाहरण देते हैं, उन्हें पाराशर स्मृति का यह श्लोक पढ़ना चाहिए और अपने विवेक से इसका अर्थ करना चाहिए: अन्ये कृतयुगे र्धम्मास्त्रेतायां द्वापर परे। अन्ये कलियुगे नृणां युगरूपानुसारत:।।
- एक गोत्र, अलग जातियां हिंदू धर्मशास्त्र का इतिहास लिखने वाले डॉ. पी. वी. काणे और पुस्तक- गोत्र ऐंड प्रवर के लेखक, इतिहासकार डॉ. ए. एस. अल्तेकर का मानना है कि गोत्र परंपरा की उत्पत्ति और विकास पर कोई स्पष्ट राय देना संभव नहीं है। लेकिन इतना निश्चित है कि गोत्र का आधार सिर्फ रक्त संबंध नहीं है। एक ही गोत्र में अलग-अलग जातियों के भी लोग मिलते हैं। इसका मतलब है कि गोत्र के आधार पर कुल तय नहीं होता।
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
कुल-पिता न बनें खाप पंचायतें-नज़रिया-विचार मंच-Navbharat Times
JD-U softens Modi, Varun stand | The Asian Age
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JD-U softens Modi, Varun stand | The Asian Age
- Despite acute unease in its ranks caused by the scheduled participation of the BJP’s controversial Hindutva mascots in the party’s Patna conclave, the JD(U) has uncharacteristically refrained from voicing its opposition, hinting at a shift in position made necessary by a host of expedient factors.
The JD(U)’s newfound softness for Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and Hindutva poster boy Varun Gandhi, slated to attend the BJP’s two-day national executive meet in Patna beginning June 12, is in sharp contrast to its stand during the Lok Sabha polls a year back. - While the JD(U) still lays great emphasis on its secular credentials, analysts say its change of heart may have emerged less out of tolerance and more from its growing realisation of the many troubles it is currently facing on its way to the Assembly polls.
The JD(U), evidently, does not want to make matters worse for itself by sparking off a confrontation with the BJP on the delicate issue of communalism. - BJP leaders had claimed that the JD(U) had no opposition to Mr Modi and Mr Gandhi speaking at the saffron party’s rally at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan scheduled on June 13.
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Groom rescued a day later - Express India
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Groom rescued a day later - Express India
- Ahmedabad Abductors abandon Bharat Ghalchar when police storm hideout; Vishwa Hindu Parishad calls off Banaskantha bandh on Monday
Banaskantha youth Bharat Ghalchar (22), who was abducted near Deesa on Sunday while on way to his marriage here, was rescued from the city in the early hours of Monday. His abductors abandoned him on the Mandal-Becharaji Road when they saw a police party.
Ghalchar was abducted by his brother’s in-laws, who were against the inter-community marriage of their girl with the victim’s brother.
Ahmedabad Local Crime Branch (LCB) and the Vejalpur police received a tip-off from an anonymous caller that the abductors — Habib Shah Sai, Arif Shah Sai and their accomplices — were holding the victim captive in Mandal village.
LCB Sub-Inspector T S Gohil, said: “We received a tip-off that Ghalchar was kept in an open field surrounding a dargah. The police immediately sent out raid parties.
- Meanwhile, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has rescinded the Banaskantha bandh, which had been called a day earlier to protest against the abduction. No incidents of violence were reported in the district on Monday, the police said, adding that a manhunt has been launched for the absonding men.
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Church of Scientology | India Religion | Anti-Scientology
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Church of Scientology | India Religion | Anti-Scientology
- A controversial religion has gripped India with its business principles and self-help routine.By Mridu Khullar Relph
- A controversial religion has gripped India with its business principles and self-help routine.
- By Mridu Khullar Relph
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- Anti-Scientology protesters demonstrate on the streets
In India, where the most popular psychology books include such titles as “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” and “Who Moved My Cheese,” there's a new self-help guru in town: Scientology.
Founded in 1954 by United States science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, the Church of Scientology is the religion of Hollywood stars like Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Isaac Hayes, claiming a worldwide membership of 12 million.
Ironically, however, in a country overcrowded with religions and beliefs, Scientology has taken a different approach: it's being taught as a business tool. With 19 "technologies," each focusing on a different area of life, Scientology courses give advice on business, disaster management, communication, the art of selling, even marriage and family. Scientologists, while not offering a direct explanation of what exactly these technologies entail, claim to have the best how-to manuals you'll ever need.
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- In the last six years since Scientology came to India, approximately 5,000 Indians have become members, according to estimates.
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Church of Scientology | India Religion | Anti-Scientology
- But despite Whitta's confidence in the techniques and a growing audience for the workshops, Indians are beginning to ask questions. As the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 unfolded, several online groups claimed that Scientologists were on the scene, trying to take advantage of victims. According to CounterKnowledge.com, the British branch of Association for Better Living and Education, which is a Scientology-related non-profit in LA, sent out emails asking members for money to print copies of "The Way to Happiness" and send them to Mumbai. The website asserts that the Volunteer Ministers VMs) "were sent solely to keep people away from trained mental health professionals and to use their own form of mental therapy — dianetics— to console the bereaved." After the Mumbai attacks, anti-Scientology campaigners asked the Cardinal Archbishop of Mumbai to stop the distribution of these booklets. According to the Telegraph, Damian DeWitt, the pseudonym of one of the anti-Scientology supporters, wrote in a letter: "Many of us Catholic and Christian critics of Scientology's human rights abuses are deeply concerned about Scientology's infiltration of India and its co-opting government, municipal, civic, and religious organizations ... . The VMs routinely deceive the Indian public that they are a secular organization … . In fact, all of its practices are inseparable from the rest of Scientology."
The Assam Tribune Online - Guwahati-Dhaka bus service likely
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- R Dutta Choudhury
- With improvement of relations between India and Bangladesh, a proposal to introduce bus service between Guwahati and Dhaka via Shillong is under serious consideration of the Government of India.
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