AMRITSAR, INDIA, August 17, 2021 (Hindustan Times): Concerned over their safety in Afghanistan, particularly after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, “nearly 50 Hindus and 270 Sikhs” have taken refuge at Gurdwara Karte Parwan in the national capital, making desperate efforts to be evacuated from the war-torn country. Talking over phone to HT, Narinder Pal Singh, a member of…
You live on Earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit. Chief White Eagle (1825-1914), Indigenous leader of the Native American Ponca tribe
MADURAI, INDIA, August 14, 2021 (New Indian Express): The 77-year-old pontiff of the Madurai Aadheenam, Arunagirinatha Gnanasambantha Desika Paramacharya Swamigal, breathed his last at a private hospital here at 9.15 pm on Friday. He was undergoing treatment for respiratory illness. The Madurai Adheenam, considered one of the oldest Saivite Aadheenams (Hindu monasteries) in the State, is said to have been…
KERALA, INDIA, August 9, 2021 (Hinduism Today by Choodie Sivaram): Devotees of Kerala’s historic Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple rejoiced at the July 13, 2020, ruling of India’s Supreme Court upholding the rights of the royal family of Travancore to administer the wealthy temple. The two-judge bench of Justice U. U. Lalit and Justice Indu Malhotra reinstated the rights of the royal…
The devout seeker is he who mingles in his heart the double currents of love and detachment, like the mingling of the streams of Ganges and Yamuna. Saint Kabir (1440-1518)
INDIA, August 11, 2021 (News 18 by Vinay Nalwa): As India gets ready to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Independence from the British rule, the struggles and sufferings of the natives under the Portuguese rule have somehow escaped our attention. In that context, it is time to recall the horrors of Portuguese rule in Goa, which ultimately got liberated only…
HONG KONG, August 12, 2021 (CNN Business): We’ve grown used to oat milk and soya milk — now a food-tech startup is taking alternative milk to the next level. California-based Perfect Day uses fungi to make dairy protein that is “molecularly identical” to the protein in cow’s milk, says co-founder Ryan Pandya. That means it can be used to make…
KAUAI, HAWAII, August 8, 2021 (Hinduism Today): For anyone wishing they could carry a collection of Hinduism Today magazine in their pocket wherever they go, this is the resource for you! In 2015 we developed a mobile version of our beloved publication, and since then it has received several updates. You can download it from your app store for iPhone,…
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu (4th or 6th century bce), author of the Tao Te Ching
COIMBATORE, INDIA, August 12, 2021 (various sources): Hinduism Today received a report dated July 15, 2021 of seven Hindu temples being demolished in Coimbatore at Kumarasamy Nagar: https://kreately.in/aurangzebi-mk-stalin-govt-demolishes-seven-temples-in-coimbatore-while-leaving-untouched-entire-vajragiri-hill-encroached-by-christian-mafia-240-hindu-munnani-protestors-arrested/ According to the above report, “The seven Hindu Temples were surreptitiously demolished at 6am in the morning on Tuesday at Kumarasamy Nagar in Coimbatore under the garb of removing encroachments along eastern…