www.hinduismtoday.com A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. Swami Chinmayananda (1917-1993), Vedantist writer, lecturer and Hindu renaissance founder of Chinmaya Mission International
www.himalmag.com INDIA, June 26, 2008: (HPI note: This is a moving account from the Nepal-based magzine Himal of the experience, mostly of those who stayed behind, when tens of thousands of workers were shipped from the Bhojur region of India to the British colonies.) Nearly 150 years ago began an agonising saga of migration from the Bhojpur region of India.…
www.hindu.com TIRUCHI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA: A group of 20 secondary-level school students of Tamil origin from Singapore is in Tiruchi as part of their “Immersion Program” to gain a first-hand understanding of the way Tamil is spoken in Tamil Nadu, and have an exposure to literary and cultural contexts. Being third or fourth generation residents of Singapore, most of the…
www.hinduismtoday.com If you want to know how much you have progressed in your spiritual life, just look back and reflect on the changes. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
www.wavesinternational.net ORLANDO, FLORIDA, June 19, 2008: Over three hundred scholars, students, professors, and other participants are expected to gather in Orlando, Florida, to sort out clues from ancient Indian wisdom for the coming generations in the modern context of social, economic, environmental, and political upheavals throughout the world. This gathering (click URL above) will be at the Seventh International Conference…
www.hinduonnet.com MADURAI, INDIA: The famed Meenakshi temple has taken up a project to digitally document the thousands of magnificent sculptures adorning the nine towers of the shrine. Renovation of the various towers was underway now and the documentation would also help in preserving the originality of the sculptures, temple officials said. The digital pictures would give details about the position…
www.hinduismtoday.com TRINIDAD, June 20, 2008: Anil Mahabir, long-time correspondent for Hinduism Today in Trinidad and the Carribean, passed away May 23, 2008. He was a graduate of the University of the West Indies, a teacher, journalism, radio host and, in his youth, a rather good cricket player. He provided some twenty stories to Hinduism Today since 1996.
www.hinduonnet.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, July 16, 2008: Nepal’s main royal palace will soon open as a public museum offering a glimpse of centuries of royal life, including a jewel-studded crown, a king’s throne, royal attires and a vintage car with a peculiar history, the government said on Monday. Home Secretary Umesh Mainali said the target was to complete work in a…
www.hinduismtoday.com JAFFNA, SRI LANKA, July 16, 2008: Dr. Thangamma Appakutti passed away on Sunday noon, at the age of 84 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Her contributions toward the Tamil Hindu community of Sri Lanka in the areas of social services and education made her one of the most outstanding Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu leaders of the last decades. In 2007,…
www.hinduismtoday.com “Find God. That is the only purpose in life.” Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886)