Kashi Vishwanath Corridor | A Look at Varanasi’s Transformation Under PM Modi

VARANASI, INDIA, December 13, 2021 (Outlook India): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the Kashi Vishwanath corridor during his two-day visit to Varanasi. PM Modi is visiting Varanasi to inaugurate the first phase of the construction of the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor. “At a special program in Kashi, the Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham project will be inaugurated. This will add…

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Kartheeka Brahmotsavam Concludes at Tiruchanur

TIRUPATI, INDIA, December 9, 2021 (The Hindu): The nine-day annual Kartheeka Brahmotsavam at Sri Padmavathi Ammavari temple in Tiruchanur came to a grand close with the observance of Panchami Theertham on Wednesday. In view of COVID-19 restrictions, the event marking Her appearance was held in a makeshift pond and not in the regular Padma Sarovaram tank situated outside the temple,…

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Deity Missing From Village Temple to Find Way Back to India Soon

LONDON, ENGLAND, December 11, 2021 (Indian Express): An ancient Indian statue of a Goddess missing from a temple in Uttar Pradesh, presumed stolen over 40 years ago, will soon find its way back home to India after it was discovered in a garden in a country home in England. The Yogini, which refers to the divine feminine in Hinduism, dates…

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Abhiseka Ceremony Conducted at Indonesia’s Largest Hindu Temple After 1,163 years

INDONESIA, November 15, 2019 (Opindia): Hindus across Indonesia turned up in large numbers to attend the abhiseka ceremony performed at Prambanan Temple on November 12, which is the largest Hindu temple site in Indonesia and the second-largest in Southeast Asia. Built in the 9th century, the Prambanan Temple, located between Sleman, Yogyakarta, and Klaten, Central Java in Indonesia is the…

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Making of a Hindu Temple – Behind the Scenes

SRI LANKA, November 24, 2021 (YouTube): We all see grand temples built in stone. We admire them in awe and we wonder how they were built and sculpted with so many stories built into them. This YouTube video was filmed at the Thiruketeeshwarar temple in Sri Lanka which is undergoing an expansion. Sthapati Selvanathan and Smt. Ponni Selvanathan explain how…

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Meditation Could Replace School Detention, Suggests Councillor

UNITED KINGDOM, November 30, 2021 (BBC): A councillor has called on schools to offer meditation classes to disruptive pupils rather than putting them in detention. Shuguftah Quddoos, who represents the Berridge ward at Nottingham City Council, made the suggestion during a discussion about exclusion rates at secondary schools. Nottingham has one of the highest exclusion rates in England. The idea…

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Hinduism Today Seeks Writer on Theosophical Movement

KAUAI, HAWAII, November 25, 2021: Hinduism Today is looking for someone to write a story on the Theosophical movement which was begun in 1875 by Madam Blavatsky and based on Greek, Hindu, Buddhist and Spiritualist theologies. In its original form, it is a deeply mystical system acknowledging spiritual planes and beings beyond our own. A major center founded by Annie…

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The Unique Custodianship of Lanka’s Nallur Kandasamy Kovil

SRI LANKA, November 20, 2021 (dbsjeyaraj.com, by Radhika Coomaraswamy): The piercing sound of the nadaswaram filled the air. A soul-rending call, expressing the constant yearning of the human spirit, I would hear echoes of it in dark spaces in New York in the sound of the tenor saxophone. It was ther [chariot] day at the Nallur Kandasamy temple and musicians…

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