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…
www.dailymail.co.uk LONDON, UK, March 11, 2008: Children Newbury Park Primary School learn key phrases in more than 40 languages – all spoken fluently by one or more pupils at the school. By the time they leave for secondary school, they boast far more than a mere smattering of French or Cantonese. They can say something in everything from Afrikaans to…
www.organiser.org ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, March 17, 2008: Recently, on January 25, ten thousand Hindus gathered at Tirupati to show their opposition to the governmental control of temples. For years, Hindus had been watching how the government of Andhra Pradesh had been taking over management of their temples, and then selling thousands of acres of land that belonged to these temples,…
www.hinduismtoday.com KAUAI, HAWAII, USA, March 18, 2008: Readers have asked HPI where to find the book “What Is Hinduism?”, reviewed by Rediff News as summarized on yesterday’s HPI. The book can be purchased here.