Ahimsa Times 2008 05 SrNo 95

SR No.: 523595
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ahimsa Times
Publisher: Ahimsa Times
Publication Year: 2008
Total Pages: 14
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Ahimsa Times, & India
File Size: 362 KB

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AHIMSA TIMES - MAY 2008 ISSUE - www.jainsamaj.org
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coincidence that April 16 was the Pope's 81st birthday and Mahavir Swamiji's 2,606th birthday fell on April 18. I told the Pope he had picked the best week of the year to come to US." The Pope's mission for the trip was 'Hope For Peace'. "I told him how peace can be an automatic outcome if one practises the Jain principle of non-violence," he adds. Arvind bhai was among the 10 religious leaders, and five young adults, who received the Pope's audience. It is estimated that there are 10 million Jains around the world, of whom 1,00,000 are in North America. "What impressed me most was that they made us feel Jainism is important," says Vora senior. Courtesy: Dr. Sulekh C. Jain, Houston, Texas, USA
MISCELLANEOUS
CATHOLDEST DELHI SWEET SHOP 'GHANTEWALA' IS STILL THE शाहाहलवाद
CITY'S FAVOURITE - If old is what we are speaking of, it probably doesn't get any more old than this. In the narrow lanes of Chandini Chowk stands a shop that is swarmed with eager customers even before it opens its doors. Such has been the story of Ghantewala since it first opened in 1790. Rather astonishingly, it didn't take a change of hands to keep the shop going
through the centuries. Ghantewala has remained in the same family since inception and is now being run by the seventh generation of Jains. So old is this sweet shop that folktales have come up around the name of the shop. It's anyone's guess how the shop got its uniquely weird name - whether from an elephant that would come by everyday with a bell ringing in his neck and stand stubbornly till he was fed some sweets or from the bells of a school that used to exist near the
shop.
Ghantewala was founded by Lala Sukh Lal Jain when he came to Delhi from Amber, Rajasthan. But the shop had its share of hardship too. During the Emergency, due to lack of orders and good quality raw materials, most of the employees were asked to leave. Instead, the family took up a franchise of Bombay Dyeing until the raw materials improved in quality.... which is when all employees were called back. What sets it apart is that Ghantewala hasn't lost itself in the commercialisation of sweets. Till date, it is by far one of the most famous shops in Chandini Chowk.
MEAT SELLERS PROTEST ABATTOIR SHUTDOWN DURING JAIN FESTIVAL Mumbai, May 15 The Brihatmumbai Municipal Corporation's decision to shut down all city slaughterhouses during the Jain festival of Paryushan has run into opposition from meat-sellers. The Brihanmumbai Hindu Khatik Samaj Sanghatna, an association of meat-sellers, has decided to observe a dharna at Azad Maidan. The Paryushan will be observed between August 27 and September 3 this year. Those participating in the dharna will have their mouths taped and hands tied. The BMC, at a general body meeting of the elected representatives on April 7, decided to shut down all abattoirs during the nine-day Jain festival. According to the protestors, the worst hit will be the owners and the workers of the slaughterhouses.
According to the association, there are around 1,500 BMC-owned and licensed shops selling meat in Mumbai apart from illegal ones in and around suburbs. They employ over 25,000 daily-wage workers who earn a meagre Rs 100-Rs 150 per day. The closing of the slaughterhouses for nine days would mean no income for these workers for those nine days, the association said. Sixty-five-year-old Maltibai Eknath Kothmere, a widow, earns her livelihood in the form of rent from the slaughter shop her husband had left her. Seated in her tiny one-room house, she complained: "No money means no food. We are somehow managing with the little income that we get as rent, but now with the BMC's resolution, I do not know how
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