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Thousands attend New Year fete at Hindu Panchangam for Year 2011 released
Hindu Temple of Atlanta BY RAVI R PONANGI
Atlanta, GA: A Hindu Panchangam
BY MAHADEV DESAI Narasimhan wished a happy New Year (calendar) for the Year 2011 contain-
Atlanta, GA: Despite heavy rain, over and good luck to the vendors. ing the data required for devout
5,000 devotees and visitors from all over As the day progressed and the weather Hindus was released here recently. It
South-East thronged the Hindu Temple improved, more devotees arrived at the contains detailed data of festivals,
of Atlanta (HTA) Riverdale, Georgia, in two temples and after offering prayers, eclipse dates and all other information
the morning of January 1 to celebrate a went around visiting and shopping at useful to a Hindu for various occa-
joyous and spiritually suffused Navodaya HTA Gift Shop and also at various sions. It can also be accessed to at the
2011 festival. booths selling saris, household appli- Web site www.mypanchang.com.
All the devotees in the Balaji and Siva ances and gadgets, jewelry, beads, art- The Hindu Panchangam is calculated
Temples wore dazzling ornate fineries work, math tutoring, devotional music based on key aspects like longitude
and colorful garlands. The dedicated CDs and DVDs. Service booths also kept and latitude, time zone, sunrise, sun-
busy helping visitors with set, and moonrise timing. Therefore,
travel bookings or auto the Hindu calendar produced in India
insurance. Some promi- cannot be used outside India. But
nent not-for-profit organi- mypanchang.com addresses all these
zations — Art of Living critical aspects by providing a calendar
Foundation, Amma Cen- for each region. It covers most of the
ter of GA., Isha Foun- cities/countries across the globe.
dation, and Gaudiya The daily use of this Panchangam
Vaishnava Organization helps one to understand and monitor
The Executive Committee of Hindu Temple of Atlanta. — also set up their booths the prevailing celestial forces of each
to disseminate informa-
day. The concepts of good timing and
priests performed archanas throughout tion about their organization and forth-
bad timing and how at certain times
the day blessing all the devotees, who coming events. One of the booths,
every thing seems to be following
came to offer their prayers. The chief manned by Meherchand Lanka dis-
along smoothly, while at other
priest, Sri Gopal Bhattar, performed a played beautiful paintings by Atlanta’s
moments things just don’t come
ceremony chanting shlokas and shower- talented artist Dr. Sivananda Nyaya-
together. The calendar gives informa-
ing his blessings on the newly elected pathi. Dr. Nyayapathi is an accom-
tion about auspicious timings and bad
HTA president, Dr.Jayasree Moparthy, plished portrait, landscape and still life
timings.
and her Executive Committee. And artist, who has exhibited his paintings in
priest, Rangachari performed another many galleries and also won awards. He
Some of other features in mypan-
ceremony in the auditorium, with also conducts art classes in Atlanta. The changam.com include:
shlokas, conferring his blessings on the paintings at the booth were donated by NASA’s high precise JPL
vendors. Temple manager Lakshmi him to the HTA for silent auction. ephemeris calculations using drikh
ganitha (calculation)
Tutorials for novices to calculate
own muhurth
Shastrashuddha, festival dates cor-
rected for the location as per
Dharmashastras.
Panchangam for more than 350
cities with detailed information (sun-
rise, sunset, moonrise, Tithi, Vaar,
Indian American charged in
biggest US insider-trading case
New York: US Federal regulators have
charged the co-founder of a New York
hedge fund and three others includ-
ing an Indian American executive in
what has been called the biggest insid-
er-trading case in US his-
tory.
Sunil Bhalla, a former
senior Indian American
executive of tech company
Polycom, was charged on
January 10 with hedge
fund Trivium Capital
Management, its co-
founder Robert Feinblatt,
analyst Jeffrey Yokuty, and
Shammara Hussain, an
employee at a consulting
firm that did work for
Google.
In a civil case filed in a New York
court, the Securities and Exchange
Commission alleged Bhalla and
Hussain provided confidential infor-
mation to Feinblatt and Yokuty that
enabled them to make about $15 mil-
January 21, 2011
Nakshatra, Yoga, Karana, Rahukalam,
Yamagandam, Abhijit Muhurth,
Durmuhurtham, Varjyam, daily transit of
the moon and the sun changing times,
lagna and chogadia tables, daily plane-
tary positions, and more).
South Indian and North Indian
community festivals.
This unique calendar was made by
the well known scholar and Panchang
Pundit Mahesh Shastriji.
Siddanti Pundit Mahesh Shastri of
Seattle, who is also well known as
Seattle Shastri. Shastriji made this
Panchangam available to different cities
worldwide through his Web site at
mypanchang.com at free of charge.
Shastriji lives in the greater Seattle
area, WA. He learned the Yajurveda,
the Dharmshastra, astrology and
Panchangam from his grandfather,
Pundit Maganlal Devshankar Shastri.
Shastriji knows Vedic, Krishnamurthy,
and Western Astrology. He is also an
honorary priest for the Hindu Temple
and Cultural Center in Bothell,
Greater Seattle, WA.
lion from trading on the information.
So far the SEC has charged 27 people
in the case.
The SEC said Feinblatt and Yokuty
received material nonpublic informa-
tion from Roomy Khan, a
former Intel Corp. execu-
tive, who pleaded guilty
in the Galleon Group
criminal case and is coop-
erating in the govern-
ment’s continuing investi-
gation.
In about 2003, the SEC
said, Khan befriended
Bhalla, a producer of net-
working applications for
voice, video and data
networking based in
Pleasanton, California.
Bhalla in 2005 obtained advance
information about sales and revenues
for Polycom’s fourth quarter and
passed that information to Khan, the
SEC said. Khan earned about
$330,000 in illicit profits, it said.