www.gwinnettdailypost.com LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, USA, June 7, 2006: An ornate Hindu temple that would rise on 4 acres just outside the Lilburn city limits got a thumbs down Tuesday from the Gwinnett County Planning Commission. Citing a recommendation from the county planners, the nine-member panel ruled the marble-and-stone structure topped with domes and spires would be out of character with homes…
www.trinidadexpress.com/ index.pl/article_opinion?id=160956640 TRINIDAD, June 5, 2006: (HPI note: following is excerpted from Anantanand Rambachan’s guest column in the Trinidad Express.) Justice Peter Jamadar’s recent judgment in the matter of the nation’s highest award is, for many reasons, deserving of commendation. It exemplifies the valued ability in a judge to impartially consider merits of an issue in which personal religious commitment…
www.hindu-university.edu ORLAND, FLORIDA, June 3, 2006:The Hindu University of America located here hosted its fourth graduation commencement. This particular graduation made history with an award of the very first Master’s degree in Ayurveda outside of India to Dr. Kumar Upadhyayula. It also awarded the very first Master’s Degree to a European student, Jan Willem van Doorn. The ceremony awarded degrees…
www.hindustantimes.com JAMMU, INDIA, June 5, 2006: Over 2,000 pilgrims have so far been registered for the annual Amarnath pilgrimage, commencing on June 11, officials in Jammu said on Monday. The registration for the pilgrimage is going on at the 93 centers of Jammu and Kashmir Bank Limited across the country. While 1,200 devotees have been registered for pilgrimage via the…
www.punjabkesari.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 3, 2006: India and Pakistan decided to work on a proposal to open at least eight more religious places for pilgrims from either side as Culture Secretaries of the two countries wound up their two-day talks aimed at promoting friendly exchanges. During the talks in New Delhi between Culture Secretary Badal K. Das and his…
www.bibliaimpex.com BANGALORE, INDIA, June 1, 2006: N.S. Rajaram has released his latest book, Sarasvati River and the Vedic Civilization: History, Science and Politics.” The story of Sarasvati’s rediscovery in our time is also the story of the rediscovery of Vedic India. The press release states, “The book shows unequivocally that the Harappan civilization was Vedic. Harappan archaeology represents the material…
www.himalayanacademy.com KAUAI, HAWAII, June 6, 2006: HPI is please to announce the posting of the hand-written translation of Kirana Agama, Charya, Kriya and Vidya portions, by Dr. Sabharathnam S. Pattusamy of Chennai, India. To our knowledge, this is the only English rendering of this Agama. The Vidya sections are important sources of Saivite philosophy. We are looking for someone to…
www.ramlila.nl HOLLAND, July 21-23, 2006: A three-day open air theatre play on the Ramayan (also known as the Ramlila) will take place at Lloydkwartier (Mullerpier) in Rotterdam from July 21 to July 23. A foundation called Stichting Trisur has organized the event, and the organizers explain, “The Ramlila will be performed in Hindi, but a Dutch narrator will tell the…
www.ibnlive.com NEW DELHI, June 7, 2006: Journalism is called the fourth pillar of democracy and media has always raised vociferous debates about the caste cauldron in society. But has the Fourth Estate itself ignored the principles of democracy in their own institutions? According to a survey conducted across the newsrooms of top newspapers and television news networks by Centre for…
www.popsci.com INDIA, June 2, 2006: As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis’s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples —…