INDIA SUMMARIZED

At the Service, from left to right, are— Jim R. Eaglesmith, Angela D. Taylor, Rajan Zed, Dolores Feemster, Gene Savoy Junior, Rebecca Willis, Michael Hernandez, Second Baptist Church Pastor Michael L. Randle. Nevada (USA) : Interfaith Community Memorial Service for civil rights icon Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr., in Reno (Nevada, USA) on January 18 included Sanskrit mantras and sprinkling of drops of water from river Ganga of India, sacred to Hindus. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed delivered the invocation from ancient Hindu scriptures – Rig-Veda, Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita – reading in Sanskrit and then translating into English. He sprinkled few drops of Gangajal before starting his prayer in the Service held at Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada (UUFNN). Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, speaking on the occasion, talked about Dr. King’s visit to India, and his admiration of Mahatma Gandhi and his non-violent resistan...