1. Priest from India Proposed for Katas Raj Temples in Pakistan
2. BBC Radio Program Explores Young Hindus in UK
3. Hindu Lexicon Goes On-Line

1. Priest from India Proposed for Katas Raj Temples in Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN, February 18, 2007: Discussions are underway to bring a priest from India to care for the ancient Katas Raj temples in Pakistan's Punjab province. The various ideas include bringing priests every year or on monthly or bimonthly basis, or a priest that could be posted at the temples, but who could spend the week in the Hindu community of Lahore and come to the temples every Sunday and for special worship days. Recently the temple was bustling with activity as hundreds of Hindu pilgrims came to worship during Sivaratri. Sardari Lal Gosvami, secretary general of the Temple Council of India, Sanatam Dharam Pertindhti Sabha Punjab, said efforts are underway to bring a priest from India. He said the only problems they were facing were a long-term visa for the priest and that there was no Hindu community near the temples (HPI note: ...a testament to the thoroughness of the "ethnic cleansing" in post-partition Pakistan).

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2. BBC Radio Program Explores Young Hindus in UK

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LONDON, ENGLAND, February 18, 2007: The BBC has an audio program called "Heart and Soul" which is broadcast on the Internet. The description reads, "Hinduism In Britain Today: Until recently, Hindus in Britain were the quiet minority apparently untouched by the fundamentalism, or religious sensitivities experienced by other minority faiths. Now that is changing. Many are appealing for separate recognition as British Hindu rather than Asian, and the young in particular are questioning aspects of the faith that their parents and grandparents took for granted. Ritula Shah talks to the new voices of contemporary Hinduism and finds out why Britain's third largest faith group is showing a rapidly increasing confidence." Click the "audio" button on the URL above to hear the program.

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3. Hindu Lexicon Goes On-Line

www.himalayanacademy.com

KAUAI, HAWAII, February 18, 2007: Himalayan Academy, publisher of Hinduism Today and HPI, is proud to announce their new on-line lexicon of Hindu and related philosophic terms in Sanskrit, Tamil and English at the URL above. The dictionary is programmed with the latest "Asynchronous Javascript And XML," aka AJAX, which allows for such cool features as definitions that open magically as little windows on the page, and a near-instant response time for the definition of any of over 3,600 words. A valuable resource containing many thorough definitions of complex concepts.

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