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.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.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.
www.hinduismtoday.com GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA, March 2008: His Holiness Vishwaguru Paramhans Swami Maheswarananda is currently on a World Peace Tour and whilst in Australia on the auspicious day of Shivaratri, he gave Satsang to the Australian public on the significance of his holy day in honor of Lord Shiva. Here is an excerpt of his talk. Today is one of the…
www.hinduismtoday.com A journalist dreamed that he interviewed God and asked Him what surprised Him most about people. God answered, “That they get bored being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then later long to be children again. That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.”Anonymous
thestar.com.my SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA, March 17, 2008: The Sri Maha Mariamman Hindu temple was demolished last November, ordered torn down by the authorities as it stood in the vicinity of the Rimba Jaya squatter settlement. Now, a new site for Temple in Kampung Rimba Jaya, Padang Jawa, has been approved. Mayor Mazalan Md Noor said the temple would be rebuilt…
www.rediff.com INDIA, March 14, 2008: As many Hindu parents in America and Canada know too well, you just cannot be prepared for all the questions your child has to face in the school. Questions like: Why do Hindus worship the cow? Are Hindu Gods always married to many women? Why do Hindus worship icons? The parents’ answers and explanations are…
online.wsj.com SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA, January 25, 2008: Cambodia’s most famous temple may be 900 years old, but the message it sets out to convey is timeless: Angkor Wat is all about glory. The temple stands out from the rest — in artistry, in scale and in popular imagery. One of the largest religious structures in the world, and the only…