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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)

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.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.hinduismtoday.com Out of purity and silence come words of power. Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993), founder of Chinmaya Mission