This year saw the 10th Anniversary of the ISJS programs. During the months of June, July and one week in August, ISJS offered 3 standalone programs in India to 80 participants from USA, Canada, Mexico and Zimbabwe. The 3 programs were; 4Week program ; Intro to Jainism mainly to Under-graduate students 6Week program , Advance[…]
Maharashtra Rajya Gujarati Sahitya Academy celebrates World Gujarati Language Day on 24th August, the birthdate of Kavi Narmada. On this occasion the Academy presents Kavi Narmada Award, a letter of honour and Rupees fifty one thousand to the men of letters of Gujarati Language and Marathi Language. The birthdate 24th August, this year was celebrated at[…]
Jain Samaj Manchester celebrated one of the holiest festivals of Jainism – Paryushan Maha Parva from 22nd August to 29th of August 2014 The eight days long festival, popularly known, as “Paryushan Maha Parva” is a festival of Dharma Aradhana. During these eight days Jains follow total non-violence, love, and compassion through fasting. The[…]
25th August 2014 was the 150th birth anniversary of Virchand Raghavji Gandhi and it was celebrated at many cities in Gujarat and the US. Virchand Raghavji Gadhi was the first Jain to travel to the US where he attended the 1893 World Parliament of Religions and put to rest many misunderstandings false impressions of Jain[…]
Our earlier report (12th August) had mentioned the proposed visit by education team to Northampton and Leicester, we now have the following comments from OAUK’s Northampton Centre. Message from Ms Fulvanti Shah, organiser for the Northampton Centre: “Dear Prakashbhai What can I say, we are so wonderful !!! not. It was a pleasure and[…]
This year IoJ has responded to a wider net of requests to provide services during Paryushan Parva. The international visit this year will be to Kenya. Dr Harshad Sanghrajka, the Deputy Chair of the Institute will be travelling to Kenya and visiting both Nairobi & Mombasa. The Parva will be celebrated in Nairobi with the[…]
KARNATAKA GOVERNMENT TO SET UP CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN PRAKRIT AND PALI July 4, 2014, Karnataka: The panel constituted by the Karnataka State Government, under the Chairmanship of writer Baragur Ramachandrappa, to form a cultural policy has recommended setting up a centre for studies in Prakrit and Pali languages. The recommendation, in a way, has[…]
A statue of the Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi is to be erected opposite the Houses of Parliament. The memorial will stand in Parliament Square alongside those of Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela. Speaking on a trip to the Gandhi memorial in Delhi, Foreign Secretary William Hague said the statue would be a “fitting tribute”[…]