www.hinduonnet.com TIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, August 5, 2007: A record 50 million people are expected to visit the Sabarimala temple during the three-month pilgrimage season starting in mid-November, Kerala’s Devaswom Minister G. Sudhakaran said. Addressing a meeting of heads of departments to discuss arrangements for the pilgrimage Sudhakaran said detailed plans should be worked out well in advance for its smooth conduct.…
www.HAFsite.org WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7, 2007: On August 5, 2007, the landmark Siewdass Sadhu Shiva Mandir, also known as the Temple-in-the-Sea for its dramatic location just off the coast of the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, was the site of a break-in, vandalism and attempted arson. The Hindu temple is internationally renowned, and recognized as the spiritual center for…
www.marxists.org USA, August 7, 2007: (HPI note: Following is the beginning of an article by Karl Marx published in the August 8, 1853, issue of the New York Daily Tribune, for which he was their London correspondent. The Marxist critique of India continues to have influence today.) How came it that English supremacy was established in India? The paramount power…
hindustantimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 5, 2007: Dr. Satwant K. Pasricha, a NIMHANS Professor of Clinical Psychology and a leading national authority on reincarnations, has been using rigorous scientific methods to investigate reincarnation claims since 1974. Here are excerpts from an interview with Neha Tara Mehta: “It is important to first understand what we mean by reincarnation. For the purpose…
www.timesonline.co.uk BEIJING, CHINA, August 4, 2007: Tibet’s living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China’s atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing’s authority over Tibet’s restive and deeply Buddhist people. “The so-called reincarnated living Buddha without government approval is illegal and invalid,” according to the order, which comes into effect on…
www.hindu.com HYDERABAD, INDIA, August 5, 2007: The Khairatabad Ganesha this year is all set to blaze a new trail going in for an eco-friendly makeover. The district administration that has been campaigning for a shift to eco-friendly natural dyes for the Murthis, hopes that more Murthi makers and festival organizers would follow suit. “We have yielded to the Government’s request…
www.news-medical.net STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA, August 7, 2007: A study with pre-school children has revealed just how potent and effective the power of advertising is. In what many parents will find very depressing news, new research has revealed that as far as tots are concerned food wrapped in McDonald’s packaging tastes up to six times better than the same food in…
www.jahajeedesi.com WATERLOO, TRINIDAD, August 5, 2007: (HPI note: Following are several stories on the attack by Christians upon Trinidad’s most famous temple.) Members of the Siewdass Sadhu Shiva Mandir are calling for security measures to be set up on the temple’s compound after it was broken into and vandalized over the weekend. Pamela Gokool, secretary of the mandir’s committee, also…
By Paras Ramoutar TRINIDAD, August 7, 2007: The life-size murtis of Lord Krishna, Lord Ganesh, Lord Hanuman and Mother Durga were victims of sacrilege by unknown men who hustled to destroy the murtis and other religious items on late Friday night at the Temple-By-The- Sea, Waterloo, Central Trinidad, some 40 kms from the capital city. Police report that, “a black…
Dr. Kumar Mahabir TRINIDAD, August 7, 2007: The temple in the sea is located in Waterloo, Carapichaima, in central Trinidad. It was built by an ex-indentured immigrant laborer named Sewdass Sadhu. He was born in the holy city of Benares on the Ganges River in India in 1903 and travelled with his parents to Trinidad in 1907 at the tender…