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EVENT ALERT ! EVENT ALERT ! EVENT ALERT ! EVENT ALERT !
WHAT: SEMINAR: "A Panoramic View of Evolution of
Contemporary Indian politics, and its effect on Social Psyche" by Shri
Tanmay Rajpurohit
The speaker explores the impact and status of the FUD factor. {FUD
= Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt}. FUD is a psychological tool employed by
Pseudo-Secularist forces against Hindutva Ideology. In 1996 and
thereafter, the Pseudo-Secularists' favorite assault against Hindutva -
"Muslims will be sent to Concentration Camps if BJP comes to power" has
been proved a while lie. After 7 years there are no Auschwitzes in India.
The speaker analyzes the ideological defeat of Pseudo-secularists on the
FUD front, and advocates Hindutva Ideology to occupy the centrist space in
the political spectrum.
The speaker analyzes the evolution of Indian politics and measures
its impact on the social psyche of the Hindus. The speaker is a Ph.D.
student in Economics. [Contact E-Mail: tanmay.rajpurohit@hinduworld.com]
***
11:30 am - 11:45 am (15 mins) : "Rekindling the Martial Spirit and Culture
in the Hindu Society" by Shri Nikhil Bhai
Hindu society has been progressively de-martialized since 1920s
due to ideological lethargy. As a result Hindus have lost property, lives
and honor. From Moplah riots to Kashmir, and Calcutta on Direct Action
Day to Hindus in Bangladesh today have lost much due to their timid
nature. The speaker stresses the need to rekindle the Martial spirit among
Hindus, and lists some important first-steps in that direction. The
speaker is a Master's student in Computer Engineering, and founder of
Hindu Jagran website <http://www.hindujagran.com> [Contact E-Mail:
nikhil.bhai@hinduworld.com].
***
11:45 am - 12:00 noon (15 mins) : "'Hindu-American': An Emerging Identity
in an Increasingly Hyphenated World." Sushri Aditi Banerjee
The speaker points out that as the successive generations of
Hindus in the US and larger Diaspora, loosen their 'Indianness' due to
natural factors there is a need to emphasize and build the Hindu-American
identity. Further, there is a need to integrate Hindus from diverse
background (immigrants from India, Carribean, plus Anglo/African-American
practitioners of Dharma) at the political and socio-economic levels.
The speaker is a law student at Yale University. She spent last
summer in India's Supreme court as an Intern. [Contact E-Mail:
aditi.banerjee@hinduworld.com]
***
12:00 noon - 12:15 pm (15 mins) : "Presenting The Hindu Holocaust" by Shri
Hariharan Veer Shivadas
The speaker presents the most under-documented and under-reported
genocides in the world, viz. those of Hindus. The speaker is the Team
Lead, Hindu Holocaust Documentation Project, and builder of the website
<http://www.hinduholocaust.com>.
The speaker has a Bachelors in Social Psychology, City Colleges of
Chicago, and Masters Degree in Theology, Fordham University, New York. He
has put in 7 years as a priest and US Air Force Chaplain; 5 years as
teacher of mentally retarded adults; 2 years as Managing Editor of Atlanta
Samachar Weekly newspaper, Atlanta, Georgia; and has been a freelance
author and journalist for the last 15 years. The speaker's organizational
affiliation includes: Board of Directors, National Alliance of
Pantheists, Farmington, VT; Trustee, Florida Democratic Committee, Tampa,
FL; Co-Founder, Sarvadharma Sangha, Washington, DC; Board of Directors,
Gandhi Foundation USA, Atlanta, Georgia. [Contact E-Mail:
hariharan.shivadas@hinduworld.com]
***
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm (15 mins) : "Atrocities On Hindus in Bangladesh" by
Prof. Jitendra Roy
The speaker will cover various national as well as international
media reports on atrocities in Bangladesh. He will discuss recent
political turn of events in Bangladesh, which could be extremely dangerous
for India, if not stopped now.
The speaker is a Medical Physicist by profession. He is currently
the President of 'Federation of Bangladeshi Hindus, USA.' His primary
areas of activist work is spreading awareness of atrocities on Hindus in
Bangladesh. [Contact E-Mail: jitendra.roy@hinduworld.com]
***
12:30 pm - 12:45 pm (15 mins) : "Understanding Hindu Dharma" by Shri
Vishal Agarwal
The speaker is a scholar of Hindu shastras, ancient history and
Indological literature. He will expound his thoughts on the understanding
Hindu Dharma in relation to the modern world.
The speaker is an outstanding Materials Engineer by profession who
has won or nominated for excellence awards by all his employers. He is
currently Team Lead for 'Voice of Dharma' (VOD) Project, featuring
websites such as <http://www.bharatvani.org>. Project VOD is one of the
principal instruments of Hindu ideological and scholarship development. It
facilitates ideological development and author development by providing
human and material resources to upcoming scholars of Hindutva.
***
12:45 pm - 1:00 pm (15 mins) : "Indians Against Christian Aggression : The
Christreview Project"
The speaker is currently Team Lead, Project Christreview, and
builder of the website <http://www.christreview.org>. The goal of the
Project Christreview is to end Christian conversions and aggression in
India.
***
1:00 pm - 1:15 pm (15 mins) : "Strategic Choice of Career Options for
Generation Next" by Shri Ramesh Patnaikuni
The speaker makes the case for Hindu parents to encourage their
children to take up diversified career choices, after excelling and
dominating in most sought after careers in medicine, engineering, science,
and information technology. The Hindu society in the US is far behind in
areas such as sports, law enforcement, criminal justice system, and
military service. The lessons from West Punjab in 1947 have been
completely lost upon the minority Hindu diaspora, when the Muslim police
and military in collusion with Muslim League Goondas completely wiped out
the Hindus from what is now known as Pakistan.
The speaker who has masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, is currently managing Hedge Funds using his own
mathematical models. His current activist work includes working for the
betterment of Hindu cause at educational and infrastructure level. He used
to be a volunteer coach for an High School football team in Milpitas, CA,
and was a Graduate Assistant to New York Giants from 1986-88 where he
learnt Defensive tactics from Bill Belichek and drafted plays for Bill.
[Contact E-Mail: ramesh.patnaikuni@hinduworld.com]
***
1:15 pm - 1:30 pm (15 mins) : "The 'Rashtra Rakshak' Program: Practical
Nation Building" by Shri Omkar Jani
The speaker will present his ideas on national building through
Reformation by Social Awareness, Health Awareness, and Defense Awareness.
The speaker is an Electrical Engineer by profession, and is currently
serving as U.S. Coordinator of the 'Rashtra Rakshak' network. [Contact
E-Mail: omkar.jani@hinduworld.com]
***
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm (15 mins) : "Partnering with Mainstream America to
Combat Islamic Terrorism" by Shri Vijay Kumar
The speaker stresses on the need for Hindus to partner with
mainstream America to address the problem of Islamic Terrorism. He
advocates a coalition of Americans/Europeans and Hindus to tackle Islamic
terrorism.
The speaker has educational background in Political Philosophy.
His areas of interest are political philosophy, epistemology,
jurisprudence. metaphysics, dialectics, ecology, and eugenics; class,
race, national, religious, linguistic, and gender contradictions. [Contact
E-Mail: vijay.kumar@hinduworld.com]
***
1:45 pm - 1:55 pm (10 mins) : "'Back to Humanity' program for the
recovering followers of Political Ideologies Masquerading as Religions
(aka Shuddhi/Homecoming)" by Dr. Kalyan Kidambi
The speaker makes the case for implementing a 'Back to Humanity'
program for those who may be following exclusivist, intolerant, and
non-pluralistic belief systems due to sheer accident of birth or
upbringing, and now are ready to break their theological chains. 'Back to
Humanity' does not demand converting "into" some other dogma; instead it
is a practical and humanistic way to eradicate theology-inspired violence,
terrorism, bigotry, and singularism, by showing a way to get out of such
theological systems
The speaker is a computer scientist by profession. [Contact
E-Mail: kalyan.kidambi@hinduworld.com]
**********************************************************************
9:45 am - 10:00 am (15 mins) : "Hindu Human Rights Program in UK" Shri
Anil Malik (phone in from London, UK)
The speaker takes up the subject of 'Human Rights of Hindus', that
are the most violated, and yet it does not register on the radar screens
of such organizations such as Amnesty or Human Rights Watch.
[Contact E-Mail: anil.malik@hinduworld.com]
***
10:00 am - 10:15 am (15 mins) : "Is Jihad an Internal Struggle? :
Empowering Hindus on Islamic Ideology" by Shri Vinod Kumar
Islamic apologists such as Asghar Ali Engineer and Rafiq Zakaria
mislead the Hindus by proclaiming 'Islamic Jihad' to be an "internal"
struggle. Like a surgeon he cuts through the arguments of Islamic
apologists.
The speaker is a scholar of Islam. [Contact E-Mail:
vinod.kumar@hinduworld.com]
***
10:15 am - 10:30 am (15 mins) : "Redefining the Role of Hindu Temples" by
Sushri Veena Shetty
Currently most hindu temples are focused on poojas and bhajans.
There is a need to advocate to the management of these temples to convince
them to make them centers of cultural education also.
The speaker is is a documentary film maker based in New York;
Currently working on a documentary regarding an african american jazz
musician based in Harlem. [Contact E-Mail: veena.shetty@hinduworld.com]
***
10:30 am - 10:45 am (15 mins) : "How to Tackle Terrorism Through
Non-Violence : The Ahimsa Project" by Sushri Veena Shetty
Some people in believe that the only solution to terrorism is
violence. The community in India that suffers due to terrorism tends to
hit back after an incident of terrorism because they believe that they
will never get justice through the legal system when the very constitution
is biased, E.g. the laws relating to government funding of schools, the
laws regarding the state control of money from the temple hundis etc. But
apart from fighting for equality under the law, there are several
non-violent social means of dealing with the injustices perpetrated by the
constitution. Thus the rationale for Project Ahimsa.
The speaker is is a documentary film maker based in New York;
Currently working on a documentary regarding an african american jazz
musician based in Harlem. [Contact E-Mail: veena.shetty@hinduworld.com]
***
10:45 am - 10:55 am (10 mins) : "Hindu Women and Hindu Renaissance" by
Sushri Mohini Sarin
What does Hindu Renaissance means to women? The need for
introspection by the Hindu society, and especially Hindu men.
The speaker is a certified gemologist by profession. Her current
activist work includes fighting for social justice for raped Bangladeshi
minority women. [Contact E-Mail: mohini.sarin@hinduworld.com]
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***
Conference Organizer: Dr. Raj Dave [E-Mail: raj@hinduworld.com]
*************************************************************************
EVENT ALERT ! EVENT ALERT ! EVENT ALERT ! EVENT ALERT !
WHAT: SEMINAR: "A Panoramic View of Evolution of
Contemporary Indian politics, and its effect on Social Psyche" by Shri
Tanmay Rajpurohit
The speaker explores the impact and status of the FUD factor. {FUD
= Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt}. FUD is a psychological tool employed by
Pseudo-Secularist forces against Hindutva Ideology. In 1996 and
thereafter, the Pseudo-Secularists' favorite assault against Hindutva -
"Muslims will be sent to Concentration Camps if BJP comes to power" has
been proved a while lie. After 7 years there are no Auschwitzes in India.
The speaker analyzes the ideological defeat of Pseudo-secularists on the
FUD front, and advocates Hindutva Ideology to occupy the centrist space in
the political spectrum.
The speaker analyzes the evolution of Indian politics and measures
its impact on the social psyche of the Hindus. The speaker is a Ph.D.
student in Economics. [Contact E-Mail: tanmay.rajpurohit@hinduworld.com]
***
11:30 am - 11:45 am (15 mins) : "Rekindling the Martial Spirit and Culture
in the Hindu Society" by Shri Nikhil Bhai
Hindu society has been progressively de-martialized since 1920s
due to ideological lethargy. As a result Hindus have lost property, lives
and honor. From Moplah riots to Kashmir, and Calcutta on Direct Action
Day to Hindus in Bangladesh today have lost much due to their timid
nature. The speaker stresses the need to rekindle the Martial spirit among
Hindus, and lists some important first-steps in that direction. The
speaker is a Master's student in Computer Engineering, and founder of
Hindu Jagran website <http://www.hindujagran.com> [Contact E-Mail:
nikhil.bhai@hinduworld.com].
***
11:45 am - 12:00 noon (15 mins) : "'Hindu-American': An Emerging Identity
in an Increasingly Hyphenated World." Sushri Aditi Banerjee
The speaker points out that as the successive generations of
Hindus in the US and larger Diaspora, loosen their 'Indianness' due to
natural factors there is a need to emphasize and build the Hindu-American
identity. Further, there is a need to integrate Hindus from diverse
background (immigrants from India, Carribean, plus Anglo/African-American
practitioners of Dharma) at the political and socio-economic levels.
The speaker is a law student at Yale University. She spent last
summer in India's Supreme court as an Intern. [Contact E-Mail:
aditi.banerjee@hinduworld.com]
***
12:00 noon - 12:15 pm (15 mins) : "Presenting The Hindu Holocaust" by Shri
Hariharan Veer Shivadas
The speaker presents the most under-documented and under-reported
genocides in the world, viz. those of Hindus. The speaker is the Team
Lead, Hindu Holocaust Documentation Project, and builder of the website
<http://www.hinduholocaust.com>.
The speaker has a Bachelors in Social Psychology, City Colleges of
Chicago, and Masters Degree in Theology, Fordham University, New York. He
has put in 7 years as a priest and US Air Force Chaplain; 5 years as
teacher of mentally retarded adults; 2 years as Managing Editor of Atlanta
Samachar Weekly newspaper, Atlanta, Georgia; and has been a freelance
author and journalist for the last 15 years. The speaker's organizational
affiliation includes: Board of Directors, National Alliance of
Pantheists, Farmington, VT; Trustee, Florida Democratic Committee, Tampa,
FL; Co-Founder, Sarvadharma Sangha, Washington, DC; Board of Directors,
Gandhi Foundation USA, Atlanta, Georgia. [Contact E-Mail:
hariharan.shivadas@hinduworld.com]
***
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm (15 mins) : "Atrocities On Hindus in Bangladesh" by
Prof. Jitendra Roy
The speaker will cover various national as well as international
media reports on atrocities in Bangladesh. He will discuss recent
political turn of events in Bangladesh, which could be extremely dangerous
for India, if not stopped now.
The speaker is a Medical Physicist by profession. He is currently
the President of 'Federation of Bangladeshi Hindus, USA.' His primary
areas of activist work is spreading awareness of atrocities on Hindus in
Bangladesh. [Contact E-Mail: jitendra.roy@hinduworld.com]
***
12:30 pm - 12:45 pm (15 mins) : "Understanding Hindu Dharma" by Shri
Vishal Agarwal
The speaker is a scholar of Hindu shastras, ancient history and
Indological literature. He will expound his thoughts on the understanding
Hindu Dharma in relation to the modern world.
The speaker is an outstanding Materials Engineer by profession who
has won or nominated for excellence awards by all his employers. He is
currently Team Lead for 'Voice of Dharma' (VOD) Project, featuring
websites such as <http://www.bharatvani.org>. Project VOD is one of the
principal instruments of Hindu ideological and scholarship development. It
facilitates ideological development and author development by providing
human and material resources to upcoming scholars of Hindutva.
***
12:45 pm - 1:00 pm (15 mins) : "Indians Against Christian Aggression : The
Christreview Project"
The speaker is currently Team Lead, Project Christreview, and
builder of the website <http://www.christreview.org>. The goal of the
Project Christreview is to end Christian conversions and aggression in
India.
***
1:00 pm - 1:15 pm (15 mins) : "Strategic Choice of Career Options for
Generation Next" by Shri Ramesh Patnaikuni
The speaker makes the case for Hindu parents to encourage their
children to take up diversified career choices, after excelling and
dominating in most sought after careers in medicine, engineering, science,
and information technology. The Hindu society in the US is far behind in
areas such as sports, law enforcement, criminal justice system, and
military service. The lessons from West Punjab in 1947 have been
completely lost upon the minority Hindu diaspora, when the Muslim police
and military in collusion with Muslim League Goondas completely wiped out
the Hindus from what is now known as Pakistan.
The speaker who has masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, is currently managing Hedge Funds using his own
mathematical models. His current activist work includes working for the
betterment of Hindu cause at educational and infrastructure level. He used
to be a volunteer coach for an High School football team in Milpitas, CA,
and was a Graduate Assistant to New York Giants from 1986-88 where he
learnt Defensive tactics from Bill Belichek and drafted plays for Bill.
[Contact E-Mail: ramesh.patnaikuni@hinduworld.com]
***
1:15 pm - 1:30 pm (15 mins) : "The 'Rashtra Rakshak' Program: Practical
Nation Building" by Shri Omkar Jani
The speaker will present his ideas on national building through
Reformation by Social Awareness, Health Awareness, and Defense Awareness.
The speaker is an Electrical Engineer by profession, and is currently
serving as U.S. Coordinator of the 'Rashtra Rakshak' network. [Contact
E-Mail: omkar.jani@hinduworld.com]
***
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm (15 mins) : "Partnering with Mainstream America to
Combat Islamic Terrorism" by Shri Vijay Kumar
The speaker stresses on the need for Hindus to partner with
mainstream America to address the problem of Islamic Terrorism. He
advocates a coalition of Americans/Europeans and Hindus to tackle Islamic
terrorism.
The speaker has educational background in Political Philosophy.
His areas of interest are political philosophy, epistemology,
jurisprudence. metaphysics, dialectics, ecology, and eugenics; class,
race, national, religious, linguistic, and gender contradictions. [Contact
E-Mail: vijay.kumar@hinduworld.com]
***
1:45 pm - 1:55 pm (10 mins) : "'Back to Humanity' program for the
recovering followers of Political Ideologies Masquerading as Religions
(aka Shuddhi/Homecoming)" by Dr. Kalyan Kidambi
The speaker makes the case for implementing a 'Back to Humanity'
program for those who may be following exclusivist, intolerant, and
non-pluralistic belief systems due to sheer accident of birth or
upbringing, and now are ready to break their theological chains. 'Back to
Humanity' does not demand converting "into" some other dogma; instead it
is a practical and humanistic way to eradicate theology-inspired violence,
terrorism, bigotry, and singularism, by showing a way to get out of such
theological systems
The speaker is a computer scientist by profession. [Contact
E-Mail: kalyan.kidambi@hinduworld.com]
**********************************************************************
9:45 am - 10:00 am (15 mins) : "Hindu Human Rights Program in UK" Shri
Anil Malik (phone in from London, UK)
The speaker takes up the subject of 'Human Rights of Hindus', that
are the most violated, and yet it does not register on the radar screens
of such organizations such as Amnesty or Human Rights Watch.
[Contact E-Mail: anil.malik@hinduworld.com]
***
10:00 am - 10:15 am (15 mins) : "Is Jihad an Internal Struggle? :
Empowering Hindus on Islamic Ideology" by Shri Vinod Kumar
Islamic apologists such as Asghar Ali Engineer and Rafiq Zakaria
mislead the Hindus by proclaiming 'Islamic Jihad' to be an "internal"
struggle. Like a surgeon he cuts through the arguments of Islamic
apologists.
The speaker is a scholar of Islam. [Contact E-Mail:
vinod.kumar@hinduworld.com]
***
10:15 am - 10:30 am (15 mins) : "Redefining the Role of Hindu Temples" by
Sushri Veena Shetty
Currently most hindu temples are focused on poojas and bhajans.
There is a need to advocate to the management of these temples to convince
them to make them centers of cultural education also.
The speaker is is a documentary film maker based in New York;
Currently working on a documentary regarding an african american jazz
musician based in Harlem. [Contact E-Mail: veena.shetty@hinduworld.com]
***
10:30 am - 10:45 am (15 mins) : "How to Tackle Terrorism Through
Non-Violence : The Ahimsa Project" by Sushri Veena Shetty
Some people in believe that the only solution to terrorism is
violence. The community in India that suffers due to terrorism tends to
hit back after an incident of terrorism because they believe that they
will never get justice through the legal system when the very constitution
is biased, E.g. the laws relating to government funding of schools, the
laws regarding the state control of money from the temple hundis etc. But
apart from fighting for equality under the law, there are several
non-violent social means of dealing with the injustices perpetrated by the
constitution. Thus the rationale for Project Ahimsa.
The speaker is is a documentary film maker based in New York;
Currently working on a documentary regarding an african american jazz
musician based in Harlem. [Contact E-Mail: veena.shetty@hinduworld.com]
***
10:45 am - 10:55 am (10 mins) : "Hindu Women and Hindu Renaissance" by
Sushri Mohini Sarin
What does Hindu Renaissance means to women? The need for
introspection by the Hindu society, and especially Hindu men.
The speaker is a certified gemologist by profession. Her current
activist work includes fighting for social justice for raped Bangladeshi
minority women. [Contact E-Mail: mohini.sarin@hinduworld.com]
*************************************************************************
***
Conference Organizer: Dr. Raj Dave [E-Mail: raj@hinduworld.com]
*************************************************************************