minimela.com KAUAI, HAWAII, March 10, 2007: “Hinduism from Ancient Times” is the 16-page educational insight section in the April issue of Hinduism Today. It is a sixth grade social studies lesson in Hinduism, Hinduism Today’s response to the California textbook controversy. The intent is to present Hindu history in an accurate, academically sound and sensitive manner acceptable to the Hindu…
www.nytimes.com LONDON, ENGLAND, March 6, 2007: (HPI note: Genetic research is revising more than the history of ancient India.) Britain and Ireland are so thoroughly divided in their histories that there is no single word to refer to the inhabitants of both islands. Historians teach that they are mostly descended from different peoples: the Irish from the Celts, and the…
Mini Mela Gift Shop KAUAI, HAWAII, March 9, 2007: Himalayan Academy Publications, publisher of Hinduism Today and HPI, has collected over its 46 years an enormous archive of digital imagery. For decades the Hinduism Today staff photographed, scanned, collected, invented, designed, bartered and exchanged Hindu art. Working with gifted artists from India, Bali, Malaysia and anywhere talent could be found,…
rajanz@aol.com CARSON CITY, NEVADA, March 7, 2007: History will be created when Rajan Zed (e-mail above), Director of Public Affairs of Hindu Temple of Northern Nevada, will read a Hindu prayer/blessing at the opening of the Nevada State Assembly session on March 19 and Nevada State Senate session on May 07, both in Carson City. This will be the first…
askasia.org NEW YORK, NEW YORK, March 6, 2007: AskAsia.org is an online resource produced by the Asia Society, an international educational organization founded by John D. Rockefeller over 50 years ago. The site helps teachers and students explore critical questions about Asia and global themes. Besides scholarly content about Asia and US-Asia relations, teachers can find expert K-12 teaching and…
info@hindusangam.org.my KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, March 8, 2007: Of late, parents have spent too much time and money on wedding ceremonies, wedding parties and elaborate decorations. Not forgetting inviting crowds of guests to face the back of selfish cameramen and the rude relatives who crowd the manavarai during the height of the ceremonies. The parents have hardly spent any time on…
www.gbbaldharmayouth.com KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, March 8, 2007: The Hindu Sevai Sangam, along with the Malaysia Hindu Sangam, are organizing a Global Dharma Youth Conference, April 5-8, 2007, at the Mines, Seri Kembangan. Youths from Indonesia, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and many other nations in Europe, America, Australia, Africa and Asia are expected to participate. The spiritual leaders…
www.dailymail.co.uk UNITED STATES, March 6, 2007: The first GM food crop containing human genes is set to be approved for commercial production. The laboratory-created rice produces some of the human proteins found in breast milk and saliva. Its U.S. developers say they could be used to treat children with diarrhoea, a major killer in the Third World. The rice is…
www.chron.com RICHMOND, HOUSTON, March 6, 2007: Swati Verma looked like she was the loser of a paint ball competition on Sunday afternoon. Orange and purple powders were splattered all over the 16-year-old Memorial High School student’s clothes. Red and yellow coated her hair and inside her ears. She wasn’t on the wrong end of a paint fight, but celebrating Holi,…
Anantha Krishnan, Hinduism Today correspondent, Chennai CHENNAI, INDIA, March 7, 2007: The spacious hall is packed to the brim, in fact overflows, and the singer on stage casting a spell on the audience with his high-pitched voice that stirs responses rarely seen in a concert hall. Yes, it is December in Chennai, the southern-most city in India, when the strains…