Source KOCHI, INDIA, April 25, 2021 (India.com): A couple from Kerala’s Alappuzha district on Sunday tied the sacred knot at the covid ward of Alappuzha medical college and hospital after the groom tested positive for COVID-19 a few days back. During the wedding, the bride was seen wearing a PPE Kit while the groom was dressed in a blue shirt…
Source HOUSTON, TEXAS, April 25, 2021 (Sewa USA): Sewa International is sending an initial shipment of 400 oxygen concentrators and other emergency medical devices and supplies to India immediately and is working on procuring more from multiple suppliers around the world to ease oxygen shortage caused by the surging numbers of COVID-19 cases in the country. Sewa has started Help…
Source “I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.”— Mira Bai (1500-1550), princess of Rajasthan, Northwest India, a saint celebrated for her lyrical poetry dedicated to Krishna
Source KAUAI, HAWAII, April 25, 2021 (Hinduism Today, by the editor): Deep within the granite mountains of Colorado, where you might expect to find a secret Defense Department arsenal of missiles awaiting the end of the Cold War thaw, lies another kind of stockpile. It is a dark, clinically sterile series of cold chambers, kept meticulously at -18 degrees centigrade…
Source The boundless ocean of births can be crossed, indeed, but not without intimate union with Infinity’s Holy Feet.— Tirukkural
Source SRINAGAR, INDIA, April 23, 2021 (Deccan Chronicle): The registration for this year’s Amarnath yatra has been suspended temporarily in view of the grim and worrisome COVID-19 situation across the country. Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) on Thursday announced that it is constantly monitoring the situation and that the registration would be restarted once it improves. The annual pilgrimage spreading…
Source They alone dispel the mind’s distress who take refuge at the Feet of the Incomparable One.— Tirukkural
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…