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news.bbc.co.uk LONDON, ENGLAND, March 22, 2008: At the URL above is a color set of photos on the Holi festival as celebrated across India.

www.crosswalk.com SAUDI ARABIA, March 23, 2008: An Islamic initiative to establish an international convention against the “defamation” of religions ran into an unexpected hurdle this week in Saudi Arabia, where members of a government advisory body argued that the move could force Muslims to recognize pagan beliefs. The drive to outlaw offenses against religions and religious figures is being spearheaded…

www.hinduismtoday.com It is far easier to conquer others than to conquer oneself, because the former can be attained by recourse to outside means, while the latter can be achieved only with one’s own mind.    Mahatma Gandhi(1869-1948)

ca.reuters.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, March 16, 2008: It was perhaps the last public act of a jaded 240-year-old monarchy. King Gyanendra had appeared at a temple to worship the Hindu God Siva. It was the kind of ritual that once had Nepalis in awe, but now the talking point from once reverential subjects was whether or not their monarch would be…

www.hinduismtoday.com NEW DELHI, March 23, 2008: “There has to be darkness before the dawn; the more prolonged the darkness, more brilliant will be the dawn,” said Shri P. Parameswaran, the All-India President of Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari. He was addressing an assembly of eminent intellectuals of the city on the occasion of Grihapravesham festival (dedication) of Vivekananda Kendra International at Chanakyapuri,…

www.hinduismtoday.com KAUAI, HAWAII, March 23, 2008: In our research on “crossing the ocean” as an offense which causes loss of caste, the question has come up if there is any parallel in another religion. Does any other religion restrict a priest or a follower from leaving an area considered holy, or restrict the means of travel, such as by sea?…

www.hinduismtoday.com In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit man’s stupidity.   

www.hinduismtoday.com TORONTO, CANADA, March 19, 2008: (Via Religion News Service) The premier of Ontario has dropped a political hot potato with his recent announcement that the daily recitation of the Lord’s Prayer in the provincial legislature should be dropped. “It’s time for us to ensure that we have a prayer that better reflects our diversity,” Dalton McGuinty, a Liberal Party…

www.hinduismtoday.com Out of purity and silence come words of power. Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993), founder of Chinmaya Mission

www.thaindian.com COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, March 19, 2008: A Hindu activist is campaigning to create awareness about the ancient Nandi (sacred bull) flag and revive the practice of hoisting it at religious functions and temple festivals. “Muslims raise the Islamic flag, the Buddhist raise theirs, but Hindus do not hoist any though they have the Nandi flag,” says Sinnadurai Dhanapalaa, senior…