www.historytextbooks.org NEW YORK, NEW YORK, February 16, 2006: HPI Note: The American Textbook Council was formed to evaluate social studies and history books used in American schools. This particular report is on California textbooks, but does not address the issue of Hinduism. Rather, it is a wide-ranging and informative critique of the books under consideration now by California, about which…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA, February 14, 2006: The detention of Christian missionaries, who were allegedly trying to convert earthquake-affected people of Uri Tehsil in Jammu and Kashmir under the garb of providing relief, has once again brought to light the role of missionaries in the state under scanner. The missionaries, claiming to be members of the Bible Society…
www.bernama.com.my KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, February 11, 2006: More than a million Hindu devotees converged at the Sri Subramaniyar Temple grounds in Batu Caves here Saturday to fulfil vows and pay penitence in conjunction with the Thaipusam festival which began Friday night. Thaipusam is celebrated by Hindus in remembrance of the Goddess Parvathi who gave her son Lord Muruga a holy…
www.cde.ca.gov SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, February 15, 2006: The “Committee of the State Board of Education On 2005 History-Social Science Primary Adoption” has scheduled a public meeting for February 27 at the Department’s headquarters in Sacramento. This meeting is to “To consider edits and corrections, and any errors, objections, and comments, for the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade primary adoption of history-social…
www.prnoticias.com SPAIN, February 13, 2006: Globus Communication, a branch of the Sweden’s Bonnier Group, has just released to the Spanish market the Spanish language edition of Yoga Journal, the yoga magazine with the greatest circulation and prestige anywhere in the world. Yoga Journal was born in 1975 in the United States, where it has a print run of 334,000 units…
HPI KAUAI, HAWAII, February 11, 2006: As our thousand subscribers with yahoo.com email accounts have surely noticed, your HPI reports were missing through most of January and into February. This issue has not been fixed with yahoo.com and you will receive reports regularly. To catch up back issues, go to the January archives here and February here.
thestar.com.my PENANG, MALAYSIA, February 11, 2006: Five elephants made their debut at the Thaipusam celebrations here making this year’s festival even more meaningful. Devotees were seen bowing their heads before the elephants at the carpark of the Penang Municipal Park to seek blessings from Lord Ganesh, often referred to as the Elephant God. The one bull and four cow elephants…
www.hindulife.nl NETHERLANDS, February 9, 2006: After the unveiling of the national Indian immigration monument in June, 2004, the Sarnami Institute has now succeeded with its second important achievement: the opening of the Sarnami House. The Sarnami House is a center devoted to the immigration history, language and culture of the Hindustaanse, the Dutch Indian immigrants from Surinam. It also functions…
www.csmonitor.com DELHI, INDIA, February 9, 2006: India’s centuries-old traditional knowledge, preserved and orally passed down through generations of households, is now going digital. Over the coming months, India will unveil a first-of-its-kind encyclopedia of 30 million pages, containing thousands of herbal remedies and eventually everything from indigenous construction techniques to yoga exercises. The project represents a 21st-century approach to safeguarding…
www.milarepafilm.com BERLIN, GERMANY, February 10, 2004: With funding from The Autumn Moon Film Fund Initiative, a collaboration of the International Buddhist Film Festival and the Conservancy for Tibetan Art and Culture, Milarepa: Revenge has been completed. It tells the story of the first half of the life of the eleventh-century Tibetan poet and yogi. Born into an affluent and compassionate…