www.newindpress.com TIRUPATI, INDIA, March 19, 2008: In a novel initiative, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has launched a crash course for temple priests to help them hone their skills in performing the temple rituals. The five-day training program is being executed by TTDs Sri Venkateswara Employees Training Academy (SVETA), in a bold attempt to make the priests ward off the…
psenthilraja.wordpress.com CHIDAMBARAM, INDIA, March 20, 2008: For those interested in the background of the recent dispute at the famed Chidambaram Temple over singing of Tamil songs, the article at the URL above will be most informative. It explains the mostly political motivations behind what appeared to be a religious or linquistic issue.
www.edutopia.org USA, March 25, 2008: (The following article from 2004 will be of deep interest–essential, actually–to any Hindu in the US who has been involved in trying to change the teaching of Hindu and Indian history in American schools. It is an insiders view of the sometimes very strange process by which elementary and secondary textbooks are written and adopted.)…
www.theaustralian.news.com.au AUSTRALIA, March 11, 2008: South Australia’s largest cemetery commissioned a study into the environmental impacts of cremations and burials. The study found it was better for people to be cremated, compared with the long-term impact of burials, even though four times as much carbon dioxide was produced during the initial cremation process. “On the day that a cremation or…
www.hinduismtoday.com Nothing ever will be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson
news.bbc.co.uk KATHMANDU, NEPAL, March 9, 2008: After more than 15 years of waiting, the first Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have started to leave for a new life in other countries. More than 100,000 Nepali-speaking Bhutanese people have been in refugee camps in Nepal since the early 1990s. The mainly Hindu people were forced out of Bhutan, a Himalayan kingdom which…
www.hinduismtoday.com TRINIDAD, March 22, 2008: (By Paras Ramoutar, HPI Correspondent, Trinidad) Trinidad will host the first ever Hindu Global Conference in the Western Hemisphere on Lord Hanuman during the The Hanuman heritage Festival, April 10 to 20,2008 at the Dattatreya Yoga Centre, Carapichaima, Central Trinidad. Attorney-at-Law and President of the Dattatreya Yoga Centre, Ramesh Persad Maharaj, said, in an interview,…
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)