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Saturday, June 18, 2005

Sanskrit invocation in MIT Commencement

I guess this month is commencement month in many leading Universities and each of them seems to be making some news or the other.

This week's story: 'Massachussets grads go vedic at convocation':

 Sanskrit hymns reverberated across America's premier Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, when over 2,000 students chanted the sacred words during their graduation ceremony.
  MIT's Hindu Chaplain Swami Tyagananda offered an invocation in Sanskrit and in English that reflected the large international crowd's spirit of unity and goodwill as 2,308 men and women received 1,107 undergraduate and 1,464 graduate degrees at the 139th MIT commencement exercises, the institute said in a report on its website.
  Also Swami Vivekananda's works were quoted during the June 3 ceremony.

More on the story from Rediff and Indiainfo. Do International newspapers ever cover such stories??? Just wondering !!!

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