tamilweek.com SRI LANKA, July 13, 2008: The Tirumala Venkateswara Temple has overtaken the Vatican as world’s most visited place of worship. With more than 60,000 daily visitors and an average of 19 million visitors a year, it attracts almost double the estimated number of people visiting Vatican City. The numbers are so large that every visitor is given a bar-coded…
indiapost.com NEW YORK, USA, July 13, 2008: In a unanimous decision issued, the New York State Court of Appeals held valid the rules and procedures under which the Hindu Temple Society of North America, Inc. has operated since its formation managing the Ganesh Temple in Flushing, Queens The decision, is favorable to the Temple’s board of trustees and a forceful…
www.hinduismtoday.com I would love to find that my future army contained a vast preponderance of women over men. If the fight came, I should then approach it with much greater confidence than if men predominated. I would dread the latter’s violence. Women would be my guarantee against such an outbreak. Mahatma Gandhi
www.newstrackindia.com SOMNATH, GUJARAT, July 12, 2008: The historic temple of Somnath in Gujarat is all set to regain its old glory as a golden temple by 2010. The famous temple’s Trust is carving and gold-plating the Sabha Mantap, the place where devotees gather, and will also embed porous Bellastones on the outer structure that will be coated with fungus resistant…
MUMBAI, INDIA, July 11, 2008: Two of India’s best loved epics about gods, demons and cataclysmic wars are making a comeback on Indian television, hoping to recreate with snazzy visual effects the magic they wove on TV two decades ago. Such was the appeal of the epics that when they were adapted for the small screen in the 1980s they…
www.bombaynews.net NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 7, 2008: Karan Singh, president of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), says the essence of his life is a multi-dimensional quest for the divine and this forms the basis of his new book “I Believe – A Philosophy for the Global Society”. I Believe is a compilation of Singh’s reflections on a variety…
www.hinduismtoday.com The greatest source of strength for any society is its faith in God. The day it renounces such faith will be the day that society begins to die. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
news.bbc.co.uk AJMER, RAJASTHAN, July 11, 2008: At a bustling market in Masuda town, a large number of people from the Mehrat community gather every day. A majority of them are poor and illiterate. They are people with a mixed Hindu-Muslim identity, and face an identity crisis. Deepa, 60, has a Hindu name but he thinks he is a Muslim because…
www.hinduismtoday.com As a dog, let loose after being tied up for some time, is energetic and active, so one who learns to remain summa, or still, gets increased energy which can be put to good use. Yogaswami of Jaffna (1872-1964)
www.inhabitat.com CALIFORNIA, USA, July 10, 2008: a Hindu religious and cultural center in California has taken significant steps towards sustainability including running on solar power, reducing energy consumption and a plethora of planting trees. Currently under construction, this religious meeting place is being built as a place of love, peace and harmony, and protecting the environment is part of the…