Source BANGLADESH, March 26, 2021 (Malaysia Sun): Bangladesh has renovated the Jeshoreshwari temple in Satkhira ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit during which he will offer prayers. Jeshoreshwari Kali Temple is a famous Hindu temple dedicated to the Goddess Kali. The temple is located in Ishwaripur–a village in Shyam Nagar, Upazila of Satkhira. This is Prime Minister Modi’s first…
Source To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of…
Source BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, March 17, 2021 (News Bharati): The decision of the Navin Patnaik government in Odisha to sell the land of the Lord Jagannath Temple has come under the sharp criticism from the devotees who feel that this is the betrayal of the trust of the millions of Hindu devotees. The Odisha state government has planned to sell over…
Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, March 20, 2021 (Telegraph India): Hundreds of supporters of a hardline Islamist group in Bangladesh attacked and vandalized 70 to 80 Hindu homes in the country’s northeastern Sylhet division after a social media post allegedly by a youth from the minority community, media reports said on Friday. The attack on a Hindu village by several thousand followers…
Source “God is the creator, and the best way of offering prayer to him is to be creative. God is all loving, and the best way to serve him is to serve humanity.”— Swami Dayananda Saraswati (1825-1883), Hindu reformer, founder of the Arya Samaj
Source CLAREMORE, OKLAHOMA, March 15, 2021 (KTUL): A Hindu prayer spoken before tonight’s city council meeting in Claremore has residents up in arms. It’s the first time in the city’s history where a Hindu prayer has opened a meeting. The city welcomed the offer to pray to show the town is quoted open for diversity. As this Hindu priest delivered…
Source INDIA, March 16, 2021 (timesnownews.com): For devotees who have been waiting to know the dates that the doors to the revered temple sites of Shri Kedarnath, Shri Badrinath, Shri Yamunotri, and Shri Gangotri – here is the list of their respective dates. These Hindu temples are closed every year during the harshest months of winter when it becomes dangerous…
Source When the Creator dances, the worlds He created dance. To the measure that He dances in our knowledge, our thoughts, too, dance. When He in heart-endearing dances, the several elements, too, dance. Witness in rapture surpassing the dance of that One who is a glowing flame.— Tirumantiram, 2786
Source UNITED STATES, September 11, 2020 (Swarajyamag}: In 2020, 127 years after that declaration of universal brotherhood of all humanity by Swami Vivekananda, “Hinduism in America – a Convergence of Worlds,” a book by Jeffery D. Long, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, explores where things stand with respect to Hindu Dharma in the United…
Source INDIA, March 9, 2021 (Money Life by Saket Hishikar): On 23 February 2021, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) came down heavily on Dr. Harsh Vardhan, the Union minister of health for endorsing or perhaps for releasing the research work on Patanjali’s Coronil for treatment of COVID-19 infection. The attack was particularly sharp but, at the same time, IMA’s press…