07-01-2004, 04:03 PM
<b>Hindu university in the US finds few takers</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Washington, July 1 (IANS) A university founded by a group of enthusiastic Indian Americans two years ago to teach Sanskrit and dispel the image of Hinduism as a superstitious religion has found few takers in the US.
Faculty members far outnumbered students during the Hindu University's first convocation Wednesday at Orlando, reported the Orlando Sentinel.
Only two students graduated this year, it said. But only one of them, Jessica Sayles, turned up. Despite all this, the organisers held a typical Hindu ceremony, lighting the traditional lamp and invoking the goddess of learning, Saraswati, to bless the university's efforts as others chanted hymns.
Today the total number of students in the university, both full- and part-time, is around 60. Among them, 15 are from Orlando and 45 from other parts of the US and India
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Washington, July 1 (IANS) A university founded by a group of enthusiastic Indian Americans two years ago to teach Sanskrit and dispel the image of Hinduism as a superstitious religion has found few takers in the US.
Faculty members far outnumbered students during the Hindu University's first convocation Wednesday at Orlando, reported the Orlando Sentinel.
Only two students graduated this year, it said. But only one of them, Jessica Sayles, turned up. Despite all this, the organisers held a typical Hindu ceremony, lighting the traditional lamp and invoking the goddess of learning, Saraswati, to bless the university's efforts as others chanted hymns.
Today the total number of students in the university, both full- and part-time, is around 60. Among them, 15 are from Orlando and 45 from other parts of the US and India
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