www.indiaprwire.com MUMBAI, INDIA, October 19, 2007: (HPI note: The following press release comes from the organizers of the this campaign for McDonalds India. In part, they enthusiastically describe a marketing strategy to connect their 3D animation film, Bal Ganesh, with McDonalds restaurants. Click here for the film’s website.) Shemaroo Entertainment in a special tie up with Crosswords book store for…
office@hafsite.org WASHINGTON, D.C., October 20, 2007: The Hindu American Foundation has received a request from the Federal Mental Health Services. They are seeking a knowledgeable Hindu representative. If you are interested, or can recommend someone, kindly contact e-mail above. The request reads: “We are currently working with the national Suicide Prevention Resource Center to develop an Interfaith Suicide Prevention Initiative.…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 12, 2007: Experts say the way women in India are brought up explains why only one in four abused women seek help to try and end the violence. Only 2% of the abused women sought intervention from the police. G C Chaturvedi, director, National Rural Health Mission, said, ”In India, the worst problem we face…
Hinduism Today DALLAS, TEXAS, October 14, 2007: What happens when 200 men and women, all sharing a profound love of Hindu dharma, meet for three days in East Texas, site of John Kennedy’s assassination deep in the Bible Belt? The fifth annual Human Empowerment Conference (HEC) concluded here today. The 200 spiritual and community leaders, scholars, academicians and activists attended…
modernbarbarian.blogspot.com VELLORE, INDIA, October 11, 2007: (HPI note: You must see the photos of this temple at the URL above. It is completely covered in gold!) One of the biggest Hindu shrines in southern India, the Sri Puram Golden Temple a grand golden temple built by a spiritual organization in Tamil Nadu at an approximate cost of US$160 million (Rs…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com DUBAI, October 10, 2007: Around 45 Indians were briefly detained by police for performing an Deity immersion ceremony on Jumeirah Beach in Dubai, reports said on Tuesday. The group was detained in the last week of September while they were immersing an idol during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival after police received a complaint, The 7Days tabloid said. “It was…
hscnet.org NEW JERSEY, October 9, 2007: Hindu Student Council members from all over the country gathered at the University of Pittsburgh for the 2007 Annual Meet to jump start the school year with a fresh perspective of what it means to be a member of HSC and what it means to be a Hindu-American. Every year the annual meet brings…
pib.nic.in NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 10, 2007: India was described as a Hydraulic Civilization by historians. Even when the British came to India about 250 years ago, India was urbanized and there were a number of towns, like Patna, Varanasi, Allahabad, built on riverbanks and other cities with tanks (reservoirs, often several acres) for water supply like Jodhpur, Jaisalmer and…
www.indianewengland.com WALTHAM, MASSACHUSSETS, USA, October 15, 2007: Approximately 60 people crowded into the ground floor of a local church on a recent Saturday for one of the first Hindu-Christian dialogues in the area, but nobody from the Hindu community showed up. The two Hindu panelists were alone in a room of white-American Christians, East-Asian Christians, and South Asian converts to…
ap.google.com AHMADABAD, India, October 15, 2007: At least 12 Hindu devotees were trampled to death on a narrow path crowded by thousands heading to a temple in western India on Sunday, police said. Another eight people were injured.The stampede occurred during a religious festival at the temple of the Hindu goddess Mahakali in Panchmahal district, some 90 miles south of…