sify.com RANCHI, JHARKHAND, INDIA, October 6, 2008: An elephant attacked houses of people allegedly involved in damaging a temple of Lord Ganesha in Jharkhand and ensured their arrest. According to media reports on Saturday, a wild elephant attacked houses of around 10 people who on August 16 had damaged the temple situated in Mahudi hills of Hazaribagh district, around 120…
www.hinduismtoday.com Prayer is not asking, it is yearning of the soul for communion with God. Swami Sivananda (1887-1963)
www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, USA, October 4, 2008: A decision of parents to cremate their deceased son has sparked religious turmoil. Shafayet Reja, the son of a a Muslim father and a mother who was raised Hindu, died September 10 in a car accident; and his parents decided to follow the Hindu tradition of cremation rather than burying the body in…
www.hinduonnet.com MADURAI, INDIA, October 5, 2008: A seventh-century sculpture of Lord Bhairava, 125 cm tall and 52 cm broad, has been unearthed from the Pachaiyaru river bed at Azhagapuri near Palani in the district, officials said. Narayanamurthy, the archaeological expert who unearthed the granite stone sculpture of the Lord, said that a Shiva temple once stood where the river now…
www.hindu.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 4, 2008: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is lending $150 million to India to help revitalize the khadi industry, which has suffered from poor production and marketing techniques. A $2 million grant will also be provided by the Japan Special Fund to support the implementation and monitor the progress of the loan-funded reform package. Increased…
www.nytimes.com MARSEILLE, FRANCE, September 29, 2008 At St. Mauront Catholic School, 80 percent of the students are Muslim. “There is respect for our religion here,” one girl explains. “In the public school, I would not be allowed to wear a veil.” France has only four Muslim schools, and some of the country’s 8,847 Roman Catholic schools have become refuges for…
www.hinduismtoday.com At this supremely dangerous moment in human history, the only way of salvation is the ancient Hindu way. Here we have the attitude and spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together into a single family. British historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975)
www.hinduismtoday.com In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life–it will be the solace of my death. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher and writer and first Western philosopher to have access to translations of philosophical material from India.
www.expressbuzz.com TAMIL NADU, INDIA, October 6, 2008: An excerpt from this editorial piece by journalist Francois Gautier: “I am also aghast at the one-sided coverage by the Indian media of the Christian- Hindu problem: blasts after blasts have killed hundreds of innocent Hindus in Varanasi, Delhi, Mumbai train blasts, Jaipur, etc. Yet, neither Manmohan Singh nor Sonia Gandhi have pronounced…
hamaraphotos.com LUCKNOW, INDIA, October 1, 2008: In a gesture of communal amity, Muslims visited a Hanuman temple Monday evening to participate in an Iftar party thrown by their Hindu friends, who seated them and served delicacies such as dates and deep-fried kachauries. Some 150 members from both communities participated in the event, which aimed to bridge the rift between the…