www.southasianfocus.ca TORONTO, CANADA, August 13 2008: An estimated 2,500 people from across the area braved the rains last weekend to attend the Hindu Heritage Festival, held at Toronto’s Black Creek Pioneer Village by the Hindu Federation as announced on HPI on August 9. The festival provided a perspective on how the first members of the community experienced life in Canada,…
www.hinduismtoday.com If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. French scholar Romain Rolland
timesofindia.indiatimes.com CHENNAI, INDIA, August 11, 2008: Works for providing golden chariots in 14 temples across Tamil Nadu are under various stages of execution and they willready by next March, an official of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments department said. At present, 35 temples have golden chariots. With the approval of 14 more golden chariots, nearly 50 temples in the…
www.clarionledger.com BRANDON, USA, August 9, 2008: Suseela Reddy slipped off his shoes before walking into the Hindu temple here out of respect for the sacred space. Once inside, the Jackson State University professor joined some 150 devotees awaiting the arrival of a renowned Indian guru, Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Swamiji, who is known for his healing and meditation music and has…
press release HOUSTON, TX, USA, August 12, 2008 (Press release): The group Hindus of Greater Houston will honor Raj Bhavsar during their Janmashtami celebration, on August 30. Raj Bhavsar, a 27-year-old artistic gymnast, earned a bronze medal as a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, becoming the third Indian-American ever to medal at the Olympics, after Mohini Bhardwaj and…
www.hinduismtoday.com To speak or not to speak–when that is the question, silence should take the place of speech. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
www.hinduvoice.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, AUGUST 10, 2008: The latest The Hindu Voice Newsletter, is once again available online. They report on the recent violence that erupted in Gujarat and Kashmir, the plight of three Hindu Gurkhas who lost their High Court pension case, the Indian embassy in Afghanistan that was recently targeted in a bomb attack, and plans for a gigantic…
www.mumbaimirror.com MUMBAI, INDIA, August 2008: Prof. K. Ramasubramanian of IIT-Bombay has recently released a two-volume translation of the Ganita-Yukti-Bhasa by Jyesthdeva pointing to the fact that some subsets of calculus existed in Indian manuscripts almost two centuries before Isaac Newton published his work. And that an Indian mathematician and astronomer Nilakantha Somayaji spoke, in parts, about a planetary model, credited…
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www.hinduonnet.com JAMMU, INDIA, August 7, 2008: (PTI): A record number of 4.3 million pilgrims from across the country have visited the Mata Vaishnovdevi cave shrine since January this year, officials said here on Wednesday. While only 4 million devotees had visited the shrine during the corresponding period last year, registering an increase of 300.000 pilgrims, they said. During the month…