online.wsj.com CHENNAI, INDIA, December 29, 2007: Historically, brahmin caste Indians as priests and scholars led privileged lives in India. However the life of privilege, especially in India’s larger cities, has been replaced with a much different existence. The article explains, “Brahmins have been advisers to Maharajas, Mughals and military rulers. Under British rule, they served as administrators, a position they…
www.hinduonnet.com VISAKHAPATNAM, INDIA, January 6, 2008:Visakhapatnam (PTI): The Indian Science Congress had another first to its credit as physicists and Vedic pundits came together to explore an interface between physics and Vedanta. Vedic pundits from the Sanskrit University in the temple town of Tirupati, Hyderabad and this port city exchanged views at a sessions on Vedic Sciences at the ongoing…
By Rajiv Malik, HPI Correspondent NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 6, 2008: Well known spiritual leader His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar gave the inaugural speech at the “World Congress On Psychology And Spirituality” in New Delhi today. Over 450 delegates, eminent spiritual leaders, scholars and psychologists from aroud 40 countries, are attending this four day event which is jointly organized…
shambu@connect.com.fj LAUTOKA CITY, FIJI, January 5, 2008: Renowned Hindu priest Pundit Anant Anand Sharma left this world, after a long illness, at age 68. Mr. Sharma was the son of a well known Hindu leader, Pundit Parshu Ram Sharma who hailed from the town of Sigatoka in the province of Nadroga in Fiji.He started his ministry at an early age…
www.feedblitz.com KAPAA, HAWAII, USA, January 5, 2008: After sending the Hindu Press International news feed from its own in-house e-mail server for almost ten years, Hinduism Today has switched to a professionally managed e-mail feed provider called FeedBlitz. Beginning with the January 5 edition, your daily HPI e-mails are coming from this new system and have a new look. Existing…
www.feedblitz.com KAPAA, HAWAII, January 4, 2008: After sending the Hindu Press International news feed from its own in-house e-mail server for almost ten years, Hinduism Today will be switching to a professionally managed e-mail feed provider called FeedBlitz. Beginning with the next edition (January 5), your daily HPI e-mails will come from this new system and have a new look.…
Religious News Service EPPING, NEW HAMPSHIRE, January 4, 2008: A New Hampshire sheriff removed a group of Hindu divinity students, priests and children from what had been their monastery in Epping, N.H., on Friday, according to one of their lawyers. The eviction followed a foreclosure sale on the 100-acre property. But the former residents are now embracing a new vow:…
by Rajiv Malik, Hinduism Today Correspondent NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 5, 2008: Mrs. Kapila Vatsyayan, one of the foremost scholars on Indian art and culture, formally launched the inaugural issue of “Sutra,” a journal published by Shruti Foundation for research on education, psychology, traditional sciences and systems, health and consciousness. The first issue’s subject is “Spirituality- Experience, Psychology and Epistemology.”…
www.hindusangam.org.my KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYASIA, January 3, 2008: (HPI Note: This is a press release by Datuk A Vaithilingam, representing the Coalition of Malaysian Indian NGOs.) I am here today as chairman of a group of more than 120 Indian based non governmental organizations. All of us acknowledge that there are issues of very grave concern facing the Indian community in…
www.time.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 27. 2007: The violence that has wracked India’s eastern state of Orissa over the past few days seems, at first glance, to be purely religious. On Christmas Eve and Christmas day, Hindu nationalists in the Kandhamal area attacked churches and convents and set fire to houses belonging to Christians, killing one person and injuring at…