www.elephantartgallery.com THAILAND, March 31, 2008: Elephants at the National Elephant Institute, Thailand, can express their artistic genius more than anywhere else. There they get a blank canvas, paint, a brush and freedom to express themselves in surprising art. Many of the National Elephant Institute’s artists were rescued from mistreatment in captivity, and the proceedings help keep support the artists and…
www.washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON, D.C., March 25, 2008: As the the Washington D.C. area’s Indian population swells, so soars the demand for Hindu ceremonies — baby-naming services, engagements, blessings for new cars — that are traditionally performed outside the many priest-staffed temples that dot the area. So, for eight years, Sastry has kept busy as one of the region’s few freelance Hindu…
www.youtube.com INDIA, March 28, 2008: Bad Manna is a three-part YouTube video subtitled “A first hand report on the effects of missionary activity in India.” HPI highly recommends all concerned Hindus view this well-made in-depth look at the nefarious activities of Christian missionaries that continue to this day in India.
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), writer, lecturer and Hindu renaissance founder of Chinmaya Mission International
www.capeem.org LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, March 26, 2008: California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials (CAPEEM) scored a major victory on Tuesday when Judge Frank C. Damrell, Jr. of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of California rejected the defendants’ motion to dismiss CAPEEM’s lawsuit to correct inaccuracies in sixth grade history textbooks. CAPEEM’s complaint contends that…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com MUMBAI, INDIA, March 23, 2008: Little would Jagdish Prasad Sharma have dreamed that his proficiency in Hindi would one day take him from the quiet holy town of Mathura to the bright lights of the US. Earlier this month, Sharma was one among the 100-odd Hindi teachers who travelled to Noida to be interviewed by a delegation from Connecticut…
www.ted.com KAUAI, HAWAII, March 27, 2008: TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an annual series of high-minded meetings, an invitation-only event where the world’s leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration. Jill Taylor, one of the speakers, shares some amazing discoveries about how we perceive the universe and think, based on the interaction between the two sides of the human…
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
www.indianewengland.com WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSSETS, USA, March 24, 2008: More than half of the applicants who wanted to participate in the one-day workshop on India for teachers on March 3 could not be accommodated. “It was incredible. We could have had twice as many people if we had the space,” said Peter Gilmartin, associate program director with Primary Source, a nonprofit that…
www.thedailystar.net CHAPAINAWABGANJ, BANDGLADESH, March 27, 2008: The ancient Shiva Temple at Bholahat Upazila in Chapai-nawabganj, Bangladesh, stands on the verge of ruination after years and years of neglect. Locals allege that the temple, built during the Sen era of 1156-1206 AD, is gradually falling apart. Deep cracks have developed on the walls of the 12th century structure while weeds have…