Daily Inspiration
www.hinduismtoday.com Whatever defect I have in my sight, in my heart or mind, may God amend! May He, the Protector of the world, bless us! Yajur Veda 36.2
Daily Inspiration
www.hinduismtoday.com A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions. Carl Sagan (1934-1996), astrophysicist and author of Cosmos
Hindus Outraged by Hindus, Says Nepal Minister
ibnlive.in.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 4, 2009: [HPI Note: This series of articles portrays the dispute at Nepal’s Pashupatinath Temple, where a long-standing tradition of having Indians as the main priests has been forcefully challenged by Nepal’s new Maoist Government. ] Nepal’s Foreign Minister has blamed his Maoist allies for the removal of Indian priests at the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu…
Ten Injured in Clash at Pashupatinath Temple
sify.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 4, 2009: Kathmandu: At least 10 people were injured as a scuffle erupted on the premises of Nepal’s hallowed Pashupatinath temple on Sunday. Condemnation mounted at home and abroad over the Maoist government’s interference in religious matters in violation of the constitution. Some Rajbhandaris – Nepalis who have traditionally been assisting priests during worship at the…
Nepalese Prime Minister To Intervene in Pashupatinath Temple Dispute
www.ptinews.com Prachanda gave this assurance when Indian leader and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav met him here and expressed concern over sacking of the Indian priests. “Prime Minister Prachanda has assured me that his government will honour the verdict of the Supreme Court and allow the Indian Priests to perform their duty,” Mulayam told journalists after the…
Reciting Ramayana Non-Stop For One Year
timesofindia.indiatimes.com UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA, December 31, 2008: Residents of Jalesar, a small Uttar Pradesh town about 350 km from Lucknow, are now nine months into an unbroken year-long recitation of the Hindu epic Ramayana. The verses are chanted outside the Badhkeshwar Mahadev temple and can be heard from loudspeakers in various neighborhoods, including the main bus stop. “We have already…
Defying Supreme Court and Popular Protest, Maoists Storm Pashupatinath
www.ptinews.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 2, 2009: For the first time in the history of Nepal’s revered Pashupatinath temple, devotees were unable to offer worship to the centuries-old deity after a row erupted between the trust that looks after the shrine and the priests, a bad omen according to the locals. The dispute that began last month with the Pashupatinath Area…
Sri Lankan Army Seizes Kilinochchi, Tamil Tigers’ HQ
news.bbc.co.uk KILINOCHCHI, SRI LANKA, January 2, 2008: Sri Lanka’s military have seized control of the Tamil Tiger rebels’ de facto capital of Kilinochchi, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has announced. A pro-Tamil website confirmed the news but said the town was mostly empty as the rebel fighters had moved out. The town is of huge symbolic importance to the Tigers, who had…
China and India In The Next World Order
www.nytimes.com NEW DELHI, January 1, 2008: China and India are in a struggle for a top rung on the ladder of world power, but their approaches to the state and to power could not be more different. Two days after last month’s terrorist attack on Mumbai, I met with a Chinese friend who was visiting India on business. He was…
Daily Inspiration
www.hinduismtoday.com The man who is kind and practices righteousness, who remains passive in the affairs of the world, who considers creatures of the world as his own self, he attains the immortal Being; the true God is ever with him. Saint Kabir (1440-1518)