Students from Newtown US to visit Vrindavan. Param Pujya Didima’s work to empower women and girls is now reaching students in America. After Didima visited a US school, the faculty decided to send some teachers to visit Vatsalyagram Vrindavan in order to research whether it would be a suitable destination for a student study tour. The aim of the tour is for students to learn about current cultural issues such as the empowerment of women from social, personal, and political perspectives. Ms McConnell, a teacher from Newtown Public school, said that it is not only the American students who will benefit from the tour. Ms McConnell said, “Didi Ma’s wish for her students, why she wants us there, is to show them through example how to learn, how to become empowered, how to become more proactive, because, women…are held back,” Read more (English)
Celebrations at Vrindavan Research Institute continue today and tomorrow. Today was the second day of the golden jubilee celebrations at Vrindavan Research Institute. Today’s program included cultural programs by Vrindavan school children and speeches by academics about the role that Braj culture plays in uniting Hindus world wide. The program also included a presentation of the first volume of The Encyclopaedia of Braj culture, published by Pragati Sharma. Read more (Hindi)
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Police act to enforce helmet rule. Police at Mathura’s new bus station imposed fines on several people for not wearing helmets and seized the bikes of those who could not produce registration papers. People who were stopped at the check point said that nobody wears helmets and they are happy to pay the Rs100 fine and that they don’t want to purchase helmets for themselves and passengers. Read more (Hindi)
Farmer robbed of season’s earnings. After his father died, the responsibility to sell the crop fell on to Vinay Kumar. Yesterday, he came to NH2 Farah, Mathura to sell his crop for the first time and was robbed on the way home. A car stopped and offered him a lift, which he accepted, but, a little way down the road, a man riding in the back seat pulled out a knife, took the farmer’s bag and threw him out of the car. Read more (Hindi)
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