It was supposed to be the greatest show on earth and billions eagerly awaited the show-down between France and Italy to decide who would be the winners of the 2006 World Cup in Germany. And there was even one Hindu player, Vikash Dhorasoo, in the French squad with the chance to win the World Cup. Instead the whole tournament will be remembered for a moment of violent madness from another Frenchman, Zinedine Zidane. Before and even during the tournament, the French had been written off as too old and past-it to win. Not only that, but Jean-Marie Le Pen, the leader of the French National Front, had used the fact that France weren’t expected to perform well to abuse the French players. During their disappointing early performances he made speeches saying how the French team did not really represent France since they had so many non-white players and were captained by Zidane who is of Berber origin. However, it was Zidane who came good for the French and with his goals and inspirational performances to silence the critics and Le Pen and lead his team into the final.

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Nilesh Prashar

Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. He is famously reffered to as “the father of the atomic bomb”.

At the Trinity test site in Los Alamos New Mexico he uttered the words ‘Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds’, after he had seen the fireball glowing after the bomb had been dropped. This quote has become infamous and it is actually chapter 11 verse 32 of the Bhagavad-Gita,

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Dear Hindu Voice UK,

I am writing in response to a letter by one Manish Bandheri, published in the May 2006 issue of Hindu Voice UK (’Am I a Hindu Fundamentalist’), which was highly critical of Mahatma Gandhi. Just as you published Manish’s letter, I hope that you publish mine, as I feel it is important to present facts that are often swept under the carpet by detractors of the Mahatma.

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Author: Prabal Goel
prabalgoel@hinduvoice.co.uk

Krrish is Indian cinema’s first masked-superhero film. With the Indian film industry increasingly borrowing concepts, plots and characters from western films, attempting remodel them with an Indian flavour (often with a scant regard for copyright laws), it was only a matter of time before an Indian super-hero film was made.

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Swami Ramdev’s first yoga sessions outside of India ran very successfully, with thousands attended a weeklong series of workshops at the Elmbridge Club in Ilford. The event was organised by Patanjali Yog Peeth and Aastha Broadcasting Network (UK), and took place from 15th July to 22nd July. Similar events are planned in Leicester and Harrow in the next few weeks.

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