www.babalokenath.org PORTLAND, OREGON, USA, December 1, 2005: Lokenath Divine Life Fellowship (LDLF) hosted Sri Shuddhaanandaa Baba’s semi-annual US tour in October-November, 2005. Baba brought the ageless wisdom of the Vedas and Yoga to a wide variety of audiences from all levels of society through his Simple Art of Managing Stress (SAMS). Baba inspired each audience to honor and appreciate the…
www.TemplesOnline.org TORONTO, CANADA, December 2, 2005: A unique Hindu website at “source” is launched in Toronto, Canada. TemplesOnline is a new project that connects the Hindu devotees with their temples and helps to promote Hindu culture in Canada & USA. At one level it helps temples in leveraging technology and the other end provide devotees a mechanism to stay connected…
us.imdb.com NEW ZEALAND, November 28, 2005: Hollywood star Naomi Watts was nearly left paralyzed after a horrific fall on the New Zealand set of King Kong. Watts, who plays Ann Darrow in the hotly anticipated remake, fell heavily from a height into a ditch – to the shock of cast and crew. But she insists her rigorous practice of yoga…
Vivekananda Centre UK LONDON, ENGLAND, December 5, 2005: Jay Lakhani of the Vivekananda Centre sends the following report: We are happy with the way the BBC is beginning to portray Hinduism. For example, in its introduction to Hinduism on its Religion-Online website until last week it introduced Hinduism in this negative manner: “It is not a single unified religion and…
iqna.ir KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, November 27, 2005: The Malaysian Prime Minister, Abdullah Badawi, is finding strong support from local religious leaders in the fight against widespread corruption in the country. In an unprecedented initiative, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh leaders unanimously defined corruption as a mortal sin. They have committed themselves to fighting the problem from the pulpit and…
www.npr.org GERMANY, November 30, 2005: A National Public Radio audio report at “source” says that Hindu refugees who escaped from Afghanistan during the Taliban rule were now being deported back forcefully to Afghanistan due to the German government saying things have stabilized in Afghanistan. An older article on life of Hindu refugees in Germany is here. Rahul Yadav writes about…
pd.cpim.org INDIA, December 4, 2005: HPI Note: We share parts of this interesting article from the weekly publication of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), “People’s Democracy.” For those in the West who don’t realize communism is alive and well in India, visit their web site, here. Though datelined December 4, it was written before the California Curriculum Commission meeting…
HPI SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, December 4, 2005: California Hindus breathed a sigh of relief after the December 2 meeting of the State Board of Education Curriculum Commission. The Vedic Foundation (here) and Hindu Education Foundation (here) worked for months through the California Department of Education (CDE) procedures suggesting improvements for the sections of California textbooks that deal with India and Hinduism.…
www.telegraph.co.uk PUSHKAR, INDIA, November 30, 2005: Foreign tourists visiting the holy Indian city of Pushkar in the state of Rajasthan have been issued with a strict code of conduct after a Finnish woman caused public outrage when she walked unclothed into a sacred lake. The behavioral guidelines were issued by local magistrates following complaints from locals upset by foreigners who…
www.inform.kz LONDON, ENGLAND, November 15, 2005: Modern humans migrated out of Africa and into India much earlier than once believed, driving older hominids in present-day India to extinction and creating some of the earliest art and architecture, a new study suggests. The research places modern humans in India tens of thousands of years before their arrival in Europe, Kazinform cites…