UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA, September 14, 2021 (Daily Pioneer): Despite a fall in fresh COVID-19 cases, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided not to allow installation of Ganesh statues at public places and has appealed to the people to celebrate the festival at homes or at temples. In his directive, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that all necessary preparations should be…
NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 9, 2021 (Indian Express): The filling work at the construction site for Ram temple in Ayodhya has been completed and the project is on schedule with the temple expected to be open to the public by December 2023 — just ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. “A review meeting on the construction of the temple…
Indic Forum dialogue on ‘What is vAstu?’ with Smt. Sashikala Ananth, renowned architect and vAstu expert. She is also a trained human behavioural sciences. She has studied original vAstu Shilpa Shastra texts under the guidance of Sri Ganapati Sthapati – one of the leading experts of vAstu, and has practiced with many experts in the field. https://youtu.be/YJJLH_mXcyg
That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
DELHI, INDIA, September 11, 2021 (Sputnik International): Every August, Suraj Padhyal from the Indian state of Rajasthan travels about 170 km from Jaipur to Delhi accompanied by his two brothers and their wives. For the next three months, they devotedly create sculptures, mainly of Lord Ganesha, and Goddesses Lakshmi and Durga. The Padhyal family is not alone. There are many…
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
MAURITIUS, September 9, 2021: Enjoy this marvelous choral and solo rendition of the Shree Ganeshay Dheemahi bhajan by the Temple of Fine Arts performing at the Ganesha Spiritual Park in Mauritius. Ajitha K. Murday is the lead singer backed up by students, with music by Anil Nallan Chakravarthy, Ghatam/Kanjeera by Laya Kalavipanchi, Sri Ghatam by Umashankar, flute by Krishen Manaroo.…
TAMIL NADU, INDIA, September 7, 2021 (casualwalker.com): After the 2004 tsunami archaeologists discovered rock inscriptions and evidence of a temple exposed by the waves near Saluvankuppam village, four miles north of Mamallapuram in Kanchipuram district. The Archaeological Survey of India of Chennai believes that the temple may well be the oldest Subrahmanya temple to be excavated in the state. While…
That which is formless, which is of the nature of supreme consciousness, is eternally existing in eternal abidance, eternally free from the constricting bonds, free from mutations, indescribable, beyond the illustrative reasons and parables, beyond gender, indestructible, free from likes and dislikes, beyond the knowable and definable existents, inconceivable and beyond doubt—That is my real Self. There is no doubt…
BENGALURU, INDIA, September 6, 2021 (hindustantime.com): The Karnataka government on Sunday decided to allow Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in districts where the positivity rate is less than two 2 percent, with a set of restrictions which will remain in place for five days. Ashok said that the government has approved to allow one Ganesh festival per ward in urban areas and…