www.newindpress.com LONDON, UK, January 11, 2006: An organization here plans to petition the European court of Human Rights to ensure that bodies of Hindus and Sikhs are cremated on traditional funeral pyres instead of in electric crematoriums. Britain has a large minority of Hindus and Sikhs, but arrangements for the deceased within the communities are different from what is ordained…
www.himalayanacademy.com KAUAI, HAWAII, January 17, 2006: Himalayan Academy, publisher of Hinduism Today and HPI, is pleased to announce the posting of the Hindu calendar calculated for 180 cities worldwide for both 2006 and 2007 (the Hindu new year beginning in April). These panchangams are primarily used for the sankalpa (declaration of intent, time and place) in ceremonies and they contain…
www.telegraphindia.com USA, January 12, 2006: (HPI note: The disaffection of youth for religion is a cross-cultural phenomenon.) A story in the Christian Post details how leaders of church denominations, youth pastors and parachurch organizational leaders gathered to brainstorm ways to keep college students from falling away from the Christian faith and how to correct the dysfunctions in youth ministry. Mission…
www.newkerala.com UDUPI, INDIA, January 16, 2006: The two-year-long paryaya (right to conduct the worship) of Sri Vishvapriya Theertha Swami of the Admar mutt will come to a close in the wee hours of January 18 when he hands over the charge of the famous Sri Krishna temple here to his successor Sri Vidyasagar Theertha Swami of Krishnapura mutt. Ever since…
www.hindustantimes.com JAIPUR, INDIA, January 14, 2006: Special kites embellished with gold and silver threads will be offered to Lord Krishna to celebrate the annual kite festival in Jaipur Saturday, which is one of the most important festivals on the city’s calendar. Several temples of Lord Krishna and his consort Radha across the city are being spruced up for the kite…
hindustantimes.com NEW YORK, NEW YORK, January 10, 2006: People who play a lot of violent computer games may become aggressive, says a new study that confirms a link between violent computer games and destructive behavior. Earlier research has found people who play such games are more likely to be aggressive though some say this just shows violent people gravitate towards…
www.newkerala.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 12, 2006: Two new genetic studies have disputed long-held beliefs that pastoral central Asian people brought agriculture to India and contributed heavily to the genetic make-up of modern Indian populations. The central Asian people who migrated to India included the Aryans who began arriving around 3,500 years ago. The studies by scientists in Calcutta with…
www.hinduamericanfoundation.org SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, January 12, 2006: The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) has retained the law firm of Olson, Hagel and Fishburn, LLP of Sacramento, California to represent the Foundation in its interactions with the California State Board of Education (SBE). The SBE is currently considering a determination of the California Curriculum Commission that several edits and corrections of textbooks regarding…
www.sunysb.edu STONY BROOK, NEW YORK, January 11, 2006: State University of New York at Stony Brook The Department of Asian and Asian American Studies invites applications for an assistant professor, tenure-track, in Hinduism/Cultural History of India to start Fall 2006. Qualified candidates will have a Ph.D and expert knowledge of Hinduism and the Cultural History of India. A solid grounding…
epaperdaily.timesofindia MUMBAI, INDIA, January 7, 2006: The Siddhivinayak temple in Prabhadevi wants to ban offerings by devotees because the temple management thinks the act of offering prasad and taking it back after Ganapati has blessed it is time-consuming and creates problems in crowd management. The number of devotees coming to Siddhivinayak temple every year has increased to 10 million. If…