worldsreligionsjamia.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 17, 2008: The congress on “World’s Religions After September 11 – An Asian Perspective” will meet in New Delhi from January 17-20, 2009 at the Jamia Millia Islamia University campus. The Congress is being hosted by the recently established Center for the Study of Comparative Religion and Civilizations at the university. This Congress is a…
www.arshabodha.org SOMERSET, NEW JERSEY, USA: Dr. Dilip Amin will give a lecture entitled, “Interfaith Marriages and Future of Their Progeny: What Our Young Adults Should Know.” More than one third of our young adults marry a person from outside of Indic faith traditions. Religious differences bring complexities in married life, including unintended religious conversion to the faith of their spouse.…
www.hinduismtoday.com You don’t stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing. Anonymous
pib.nic.in NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 4, 2008: At a meeting chaired by Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh with Ministries of Water Resources, Environment and Forests and Urban Development in New Delhi today, a decision was taken to declare the Ganga a National River. It also created the Ganga River Basin Authority as an empowered planning, implementing and monitoring authority for…
www.hindu.com CHENNAI, INDIA, November 8, 2008: A 1,200-year-old Siva temple of the Pallava period at Tiruppulivanam village in Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu, has been wiped clean of its beautiful Chola-period paintings. The frescoes, about 975 years old, have been sand-blasted out of existence. The frescoes were painted perhaps during the rule of Rajendra I, on the northern prakara wall. Dr.…
www.hinduismtoday.com O God of mercy who performs the dance of illimitable happiness in the hall of inconceivable intelligence! The Rig and the other Vedas are thundering forth in words, announcing to us that all are thy slaves, all things belong to thee, all actions are thine, that thou pervades everywhere, that this is thy nature. Such is the teaching of…
www.hindustantimes.com HYDERABAD, INDIA, November 9, 2008: Nearly 6,000 senior Islamic clerics from around the country endorsed a fatwa (edict) against terror issued on May 31 by influential Islamic seminary Darul Uloom, Deoband. On Sunday, 50,000 more are expected to put their signatures on it, making it the biggest and clearest rejection of terror by Muslims. Darul Uloom, some 100 km…
www.hinduismtoday.com In the midst of great joy do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger do not answer anyone’s letter. Chinese Proverb
www.sltrib.com UTAH, USA, November 7, 2008: The smells of paneer pakora and stuffed okra filled the Governor’s Mansion on Friday night as Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. invited many from Utah’s Indian community to celebrate Diwali with him and his family. It all happens because two years ago, the Huntsmans adopted a daughter, Asha, from India. He told the crowd gathered…