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From HPI on April 4

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3. Hindu Radio Station To Go On Air

Source: Leicester Mercury

 

LEICESTER, ENGLAND, March 28, 2003: Utsav radio has been granted a 

license and will be on the air for four weeks from March 31. It will be 

broadcast on 97.5FM, 18 hours a day from 6 a.m. until 12 a.m. The 

station, supported by Leicester Hindu temples organization, will 

celebrate Ram Navami, Shree Swaminarayan Jayanti, Shree Mahavir Jayanti 

and Shree Hanuman Jayanti. Broadcasts will be from Sabras radio house 

on Melton Road. Any students interested in participating should contact 

Shree Sanatana Mandir at 0116 2661402 or Sabras radio house at 0116 

2610666.

 

4. Young Indian American Hindu Joins Marines

Source: http://www.rediff.com/us/2003/apr/04iraq1.htm

 

CAMP LEJEUNE, U.S.A., April 4, 2003: Nishkam Gupta, 21, is not like 

others of his age, his parents will tell you. He is currently at Camp 

Lejeune, serving in the Marines, and in a few days he will leave to 

serve in Iraq. Nishkam attended a Marine boot "summer" camp while in 

high school and later made a 6-year commitment with the US military as 

a Marine reservist. While at Camp Lejeune, Nishkam's mother said her 

son refused to go with other soldiers to the Christian Sunday services. 

"He demanded to be given his own place so he could follow his own 

religion," she said. At his request, his mother sent him pictures of 

the Hindu Gods and Goddesses. "So every Sunday, when other Marines 

would go to the church, he and 2 or 3 other Indians would pray at this 

special location given to them. He made sure that Indians kept their 

identity even in the US military," she said. At the time his reserve 

unit was called up he was studying mechanical engineering at the 

University of Cincinnati, where he founded the local chapter of Hindu 

Students Council. When packing his bags for going to Iraq he took only 

four books with him -- the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana, The Hindu Mind 

by Bansi Pandit and The Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda. His 

parents, who had expressed reluctance at their son's decision, have now 

adjusted. "Nobody likes their son to go to war," said his father, "but 

we have no choice but to support him because this is what he really 

wants."

 

 

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