Source: HPI PORT LOUIS, MAURITIUS, September 12, 2008: Sunday, September 14 will see the long-awaited Maha Kumbhabhishekam of the Bala Dhandayudapanee Tirukovil on Monneron Hill, in the Vallee Pitot region of Port Louis. Since 1961, members of the local Tamil community have been worshipping and observing their festivals in the nearby Gupteswarnath Mandir, thanks to the generosity of its owner…
www.telegraph.co.uk UK, September 08, 2008: Sikh and Hindu leaders have complained that the BBC has made a disproportionate number of programs about Islam, at the expense of programs on their own faiths. The Network of Sikh Organisations has analyzed the programs from the BBC’s Religion and Ethics department and found that since 2001, the BBC has made 41 programs on…
www.hinduismtoday.com Man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can do without. American philosopher Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
www.hindujagruti.org BERLIN, GERMANY, September 11, 2008: The 6,000 Hindus living in Germany’s capital city, after years of praying in a cellar, are moving forward with plans for not one but two spacious temples, both to be built in Neukoelln, a suburb of Berlin. In February, the Sri Mayurapathy Murugan Temple Association announced plans for a temple to Lord Murugan, who…
www.echo-news.co.uk SOUTHEND, ESSEX, UK, September 12, 2008: Thousands of Hindus are expected at the fourth Ganapati Visarjana ceremony being staged on Shoeburys East Beach. Organized by the Shree Jalaram Seva Trust, the celebration is thought to be the largest outside India. Saturdays ceremony marks Ananta Chaturdashi, the birthday of the Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed God. His birthday is one of…
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www.hinduismtoday.com KAUAI, USA, September 11, 2008: The October/November/December edition of Hinduism Today magazine has been released in digital form and is now available — for free — on your desktop. This compelling issue can help you protect your children from misinformation. It gives Hindu families, teachers and institutions a powerful educational tool which help us all teach kids the truth…
www.capeem.org CALIFORNIA, USA, September 10, 2008: To counter gross inaccuracies in American 6th grade schoolbooks, the California Association of Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials (CAPEEM) filed in March 2006 a lawsuit against the California Department of Education (CDE) and members of the State Board of Education (SBE). The lawsuit has now concluded its pre-trial phase. CAPEEM initiated the…
www.hinduismtoday.com There is a startling parallelism between today’s physics and the world vision of Eastern mysticism. The increasing contribution of Eastern scientists from India, China and Japan, among others, reinforces this conjunction. Physical science has now become planetary and draws into its fold an increasing number of non-Easterners who find in its new vision of the universe many elements that…