www.timesofindia.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 13, 2007: The festive season is well and truly here. Friday marks the beginning of the ten-day-long Navratri celebrations which willculminate with Dussehra. Literally meaning nine nights, Navratri celebrates the nine forms of Shakti–Durga, Amba, Chandi, Latika, Bhairavi, Mookambika,Sarvamangala, Bhadrakali and Annapurna. In Delhi sand most parts of north India, devotees throng temples dedicated to…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, October 9, 2007: The Constitutional Court last Friday ruled that Durban High School had violated the right of 19-year-old Sunali Pillay by refusing her permission to wear her nose stud when she was a student at the school three years ago. The court ordered that the school should amend its code of conduct to take into…
HPI EADS, TENNESSEE, October 12, 2007: The publisher of the international magazine, Hinduism Today, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami (affectionately referred to as “Bodhinatha”) will be visiting the India Cultural Center and Temple of Eads, Tennessee, on October 20, 2007, bringing with him two monastics. Successor to Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Bodhinatha and his monastic order are carrying on the dynamic work started…
www.nydailynews.com NEW YORK, October 12th 2007: Indian philosopher Sri Chinmoy, whose teachings of inner peace and world harmony made him a spiritual guide to thousands of followers here and around the world, died Thursday. He was 76. The end came in his modest home in the Jamaica Hills section of Queens at 7a.m. Chinmoy was nominated for this year’s Nobel…
www.nytimes.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, October 2, 2007: When Anil Godhwani and his brother, Gautam, looked into creating a community center for Indian-Americans in Silicon Valley, they turned to the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco as a model. When the Hindu American Foundation began, it looked to groups like the Anti-Defamation League and Simon Wiesenthal Center for guidance with its…
www.indoamerican-news.com HOUSTON,TEXAS, October 9, 2007: Vijay Kumar Pallod’s capacity for perseverance is legendary; he personifies the proverbial squeaky wheel that demands attention and he effectively expedites whatever task is on hand. He is a gifted spin-doctor and can find a positive slant in any given circumstance, however dire. No problem is too big for him to solve; he thrives on…
www.economist.com BANGALORE, INDIA, October 4, 2007: India’s government is threatening to make companies hire more low-caste workers. A 23-year-old dressed in white pajama trousers and a black over shirt represents two worlds in India that know almost nothing of each other. One is fast growing but tiny: the world of business. Strolling through the Californian-style campus in Bangalore that serves…
www.utne.com USA, October 7, 2007: (HPI note: This long and entertaining article appeared in the April issue of Utne Reader. It recounts the coverage of yoga and Hinduism in the American press since the beginning of the 19th century when Ralph Waldo Emerson’s father published the first Sanskrit scripture translation in the United States.) Some Excerpts: “To the American consumer…
mailto:orueagle3@yahoo.com USA, October 8, 2007: (HPI note: We found this interesting informaton.) In September of ’06, author Howie Gardner, Pastor of Bel Air Assembly of God in Maryland, composed a letter to the Muslim World league in Saudi Arabia. The letter has been revised a number of times at the suggestions of various missionaries and theologians. It can be seen…