timesofindia.indiatimes.com KANPUR, INDIA, July 25, 2006: A Goddess Lakshmi statue and an owl transformed the Rajpur police station in Kanpur Dehat into a virtual temple, giving the cops a harried time in controlling the over 25,000 crowd of villagers that gathered there to pay obeisance. In the wee hours of Monday an owl, considered to be the ‘vahana’ (vehicle) of…
movies2.nytimes.com NEW YORK, NEW YORK, July 26, 2006: (HPI note: This is a somewhat mixed review by the New York Times of a film Hindus are sure to love. The very fact the Times reviewed it at all means they consider it significant. The reviewer’s comments about finances are rather typical of their need to make some negative criticism.) Director…
www.canada.com VAL MORIN, CANADA, July 23, 2006: Nestled in this small Laurentian community is a world-renowned Murugan Temple. Founded in 1963 by Swami Vishnu Devananda, Sivananda Ashram and Subramanyam Aayapa Temple, has become a pilgrimage place where Hindu devotees come to practice yoga, meditate or pray. For two weeks every summer, the Subramanyam Aayapa temple attracts thousands of devotees from…
www.hindu.com KARAIKAL, INDIA, July 22, 2006: The CEDA (Centre for Environment and Development Alternatives) Trust, a non-governmental organization, carrying out tsunami rehabilitation works in Karaikal district in the Union Territory of Pondicherry, has encouraged farmers to adopt organic farming methods. The Trust recently, at the advisory meeting for the farmers of its adopted villages in the coastal hamlet or T.R.…
www.dailyindia.com TIRUPATI, INDIA, July 19, 2006: After allegations were made that employees at Lord Venkateswara temple may be assisting Christians in their evangelical activities within the temple compound, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam which manages the temple ordered all 10,000 employees to start wearing the Tilak on their forehead. Even though the TTD conducted an investigation into the allegations and found…
www.worldsreligionsafter911.com MONTREAL, CANADA, July 24, 2006: At a time when serious international conflicts are arising out of religious differences, the global congress World’s Religions after September 11 aims to place intercultural conflicts in perspective and allow for a dialogue between the representatives of the world’s different faiths. Rather than concentrate on the differences between traditions, why not emphasize our common…
www.usatoday.com ALBANY, NEW YORK, July 21, 2006: Sikh, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, and Christian — each faith has its holy days and schools across the country are asking how to respect them all. Consider the University at Albany, New York, which canceled classes on major Muslim holidays. The faculty wanted the move out of concern for Muslim students after the…
www.organiser.org TIRUPATI, INDIA, July 17, 2006: The controversial government order issued by the Andrha Pradesh State Government reportedly restricting the jurisdiction of the Tirumala Temple (TTD) to only 4 square miles around the shrine snowballed into such a major controversy that the sadhus and saints, and a number of pro-active Hindu organizations on Saturday converged in Tirupati to demand the…
www.gorkhapatra.org.np KATHMANDU, NEPAL, July 11, 2006: Guru Purnima, traditionally known as the day when a devotee honors their spiritual guru, takes on a different flavor in Kathmandu by honoring teachers. “Every year Guru Purnima (Teachers Day) is celebrated on the full moon day in the third week of Asad, the day when Lord Gautam Buddha imparted his sermons to his…
www.organiser.org CHENNAI, INDIA, June 26, 2006: In an event organized by Swami Dayanand Saraswathiji for the media, Swami recognized the problems that the media has in covering items pertinent to the Hindu dharma, tradition and culture. He also asked them to report the news in such a way that they are champions for the Hindu Dharma. Swami specifically addressed the…