www.iht.com UBUD, INDONESIA, July 15, 2008: It was the most spectacular royal funeral in Bali in at least three decades. In a roar of orange flames, the body of Agung Suyasa, head of the royal family of Ubud, was reduced to its earthly elements Tuesday in a mass cremation that included three royal figures and 68 commoners. In a Balinese…
www.newindpress.com KERALA, INDIA, July 5, 2008: The Congress party in Kerala on Saturday decided to strengthen agitation against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government of the state over a controversial Class 7 textbook. The Congress, which is on a campaign demanding withdrawal of the social science book, would organize a series of meetings across the state against teaching from the…
news.bbc.co.uk PREAH VIHEAR, CAMBODIA, July 15, 2008: Two hundred Thai and 380 Cambodian troops are said to be deployed at Preah Vihear temple, which sits on disputed territory along the border. The build-up happened after Cambodia said Thai troops had crossed to its territory – a charge Thailand denies. It comes days after Unesco listed the temple as a World…
www.youtube.com KAUAI, HAWAII, USA, July 15, 2008: Marking its full entrance onto the stage of online video, Kauai’s Hindu Monastery launched its new monthly podcast. It is a 10-minute video highlighting the activities of Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of Hinduism Today, and the many events happening at the monastery including the progress of Iraivan Tmeple, America’s first all-stone Hindu temple.…
Among the most splendid works on display are four folios belonging to a Persian translation of the Ramayana prepared during around 1600 CE. “The work, created for the emperor’s mother by the most respected painters of the time, is an excellent example of the fusion of the Persian and Indian artistic traditions,” said Eberhard Fischer, the director of Rietberg museum.…
www.hinduismtoday.com India conquered and dominated China culturally [through Buddhism] for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to the United States
www.hinduonnet.com NEW YORK, NEW YORK, July 12, 2008: Led by Vikram Pandit, who runs Citigroup, there are a dozen Fortune 500 companies across the world with an Indian or a person of India-origin as chief, as per the latest list of world’s biggest corporations released on Wednesday. While there are seven Indian companies on this year’s Global Fortune500 list, up…
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