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www.hinduismtoday.com If the chimney is full of smoke, how can the light be seen? If the mind is full of dirt, how can the soul shine? Yogaswami of Jaffna (1872-1964)
Hear Sanskrit, Speak Sanskrit, Blog Sanskrit
www.speaksanskrit.org U.S.A, March 15, 2008: A group of students of Indian origin from various US Universities, meeting at an online forum, decided to create an online Sanskrit magazine. Under the name “Campus Samskritam Network” (CSN), faculty and alumni from MIT, UMD, CMU, UPitt, PSU, UPenn, Caltech, Purdue and other prestigious universities have been working on an eletronic publication, hosted on…
India Nurtures Business Of Surrogate Motherhood
www.nytimes.com MUMBAI, INDIA, March 10, 2008: Yonatan Gher and his partner, who are Israeli, plan eventually to tell their child about being made in India, in the womb of a stranger, with the egg of a Mumbai housewife they picked from an Internet lineup. The embryo was formed in January in an Indian fertility clinic about 2,500 from the couple’s…
Canadian Wal-Marts to Sell Indian Garments
www.mynews.in OTTOWA, CANADA, March 12, 2008: Under a multi-year agreement between Ranka Group of Companies and Wal-mart, it was announced yesterday they will sell Indian family apparel, covering a wide range of clothing in 20 Wal-mart stores across Canada. “My life dream to promote India in Canada is fulfilled. I have been working for years to promote self esteem for…
Dwindling Churches in Britain Use Immigrant Indian Priests
www.hinduonnet.com LONDON, UK, March 11, 2008: In a role reversal, Indians are not only meeting the shortage of priests in churches in Britain, but Christian migrants from India, particularly from Kerala, are helping boost dwindling church congregations. One of the first Indian priests to arrive in Wales to preach Christianity was Rev Hmar Sangkhuma, from the Diocese of Mizoram in…
Expanding ‘Deserts,’ by Land and Sea
dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com LONDON, UK, March 11, 2008: Scientists have long projected that areas will become more desertic in a warming world — from the Middle East through the European Riviera to the American Southwest, from sub-Saharan Africa to parts of Australia. But scientists have measured a rapid recent expansion of desert-like barrenness in the subtropical oceans, in places where surface waters…
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Bhutanese Refugees Start New Life
news.bbc.co.uk KATMANDU, NEPAL, March 10, 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…
Hindu Temple Reopens In Srinagar, After 19 Years
newsblaze.com SRINAGAR, INDIA, March 8, 2008: Soomyar Mandir, a Hindu temple at Haba-Kadal in the summer capital Srinagar was thrown open after 19 years. Before the onset of militancy in 1989, the Haba-Kadal had the maximum concentration of Kashmiri Hindus. After the turmoil, most of the Kashmiri Hindu families migrated to different parts of India and Indian troops set up…