Source INDIA, April 19, 2021 (Hinduism Today, by Tirtho Bannerji): The most ubiquitous books found in Hindu households throughout India are the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita and Ramcharitmanas, often side by side with the booklet Hanuman Chalisa. A majority of these come from Gita Press in Gorakhpur. Why is that? Their nominal price is a key reason, but it’s also because…
Source AFGHANISTAN, April 19, 2021 (Up News Info): For half a century, through war, anarchy and upheaval, Afghanistan has been stripped of tens of thousands of Buddhist and Hindu antiquities, some dating back more than 1,800 years. Many of those items entered the Western market in the 1990s and early 2000s, St John Simpson, a curator at the British Museum,…
Source HARIDWAR, INDIA, April 19 2021 (Business Standard): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday had appealed to the sadhus to observe the remaining duration of the Kumbh Mela only in a symbolic manner. There is hardly any crowd now at the bathing ghats where droves of sadhus and common devotees had gathered for a dip in the river on the…
Source What has learning profited a man, if it has not led him to worship the Good Feet of Him who is pure knowledge itself?— Tirukkural
Source BELGRADE, SERBIA, January 27, 2021 (Bharata Bharati by Zvonimir Kostic): Of all the Indo-European people, Slavs are the ones who inhabit the largest territory on the Euro-Asian continent today. Also, Slavs are the most numerous ethno-linguistic group on the European continent. There are about 300 million of them today. Slavic peoples are traditionally divided into Eastern Slavs (Russians, Belarus,…
Source HARIDWAR, INDIA, April 17, 2021 (Daily Pioneer, from an earlier report): The Niranjani Akhada had on Thursday announced that considering the deteriorating situation in Haridwar due to Covid, it had asked its members to return to their respective destinations from April 17 onward, stating that the coming Shahi Snan should be observed in a symbolic manner with only a…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 17, 2021 (PTI): Amid nationwide concern over the large gatherings seen during the Kumbh Mela, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appealed that the mela should now be only “symbolic” as it will help strengthen the country’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic. In a tweet, the Prime Minister said he spoke to top seer, Hindu…
Source As to a mountain that’s enflamed, deer and birds do not resort–so, with knowers of God, sins find no shelter.— Krishna Yajur Veda, Maitreya Upanishads 6.18
Source HARIDWAR, INDIA, April 16, City AM): India reported a record 200,739 Covid-19 cases over the last 24 hours, according to the country’s Ministry of Health earlier today. Deaths climbed to 1,038, taking the total to 173,123, while total infections have hit just over 14.1m cases, according to the latest official data. The coronavirus is spreading much faster in India…
Source HARIDWAR, INDIA, April 16, 2021 (Times of India): Mahamandaleshwar Kapil Dev Das, 65, of the Nirwani Akhada of Madhya Pradesh died of complications from Covid-19 at a private facility here on Thursday at the Maha Kumbh area. [He had been sick with Covid for nearly two weeks prior.] A senior official in the health department confirmed to TOI that…