devant@tstt.net.tt TRINIDAD, July 9, 2006: Devant Maharaj of Trinidad writes on behalf of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha Inc. of Trinidad and Tobago: “The SDMS is the largest Hindu organization in Trinidad and the Caribbean. The SDMS recently acquired the rights to broadcast a Hindu station on the local cable network here in Trinidad. There are currently an Islamic and…
news.moneycontrol.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 14, 2006: This humorous news piece about Indian men failing to wear traditional dress gives food for thought while entertaining the reader. Author Jerry Pinto speaks out, “I wonder why all of us men of the East have no confidence in our own traditions as far as dress codes go. Japanese men won’t wear kimonos…
malaysiahinduvoice@gmail.com MALAYSIA, July 3, 2006: In this news piece sent by the Malaysian Hindu Voice, Dr. Farish A. Noor, a Malaysian political scientist and human rights activist, speaks out against the recent demolition of Hindu temples in Malaysia. He notes that because of globalization the Hindu community is connected with others worldwide and, as a result, Hindu organizations in Europe…
jammi.rao@btopenworld.com BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, July 8, 2006: (HPI note: For further information on the following press release, contact Dr. Jammi Rao, the temple’s Press Officer, at the e-mail above.) Europe’s largest Hindu temple, near Birmingham, is set to open in August with great fanfare and elaborate rituals performed by priests especially brought from India. The US$12 million temple, funded in part…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, July 6, 2006: Here, in a devout village, some 9 km from the Tiruvalla town of southern Kerala, women are worshipped. The temple is dedicated to the Deity of Bhagavati, and follows a unique annual ritual called “Naari Puja.” On the first Friday of Dhanu (December), the male priests wash the feet of female devotees who have…
Paras Ramoutar TRINIDAD, July 6, 2006: It will not air chutney, soca or calypso, just Hinduism and Indian culture. Several years of continuous legal battles in the several levels of in the Trinidad and Tobago justice system are over. It will be the first radio facility promoting Hinduism in the Caribbean. There are over 300,000 Hindus in Trinidad and Tobago.…
www.ndtv.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 7, 2006: In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court has directed the state governments to protect inter-caste couples. The court said that states should encourage inter-caste marriages to ensure a casteless society. The Supreme Court gave this ruling while quashing proceedings initiated against an inter-caste couple in Uttar Pradesh, speaking about the tendency to harass…
www.teluguportal.net RODNEY BAY, ST. LUCIA, July 7, 2006: Jennifer Gaston and Fleming Victor Luther Salapuddi, both St Lucians of Indian origin, are successful professionals. Ms. Gaston’s family came to this island over a hundred years ago, part of the indentured labour shipped by the British to man their plantations, while Dr. Salapuddi came in the 1970s, one of the first…
www.kansas.com WICHITA, KANSAS, July 1, 2006: HPI note: This article appeared in the Wichita Eagle, a newspaper based in Wichita, Kansas.) Karma, according to many Eastern religions, is the ultimate in objective justice–the innately moral music to which our universe twirls. Karma dictates that, sooner or later, we reap what we sow. Like many other spiritual beliefs, karma is a…
www.religionwatch.com USA, July 7, 2006: Fifty percent of Americans report that they have had religious experience, according to the first nationally representative study of spiritual transformations. The study was conducted by Tom Smith of the General Social Survey at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, who added a special National Spiritual Transformation Study module to the…