SourceMUMBAI, INDIA, MARCH 27, 2004: A number of artists and scientists have helped to design the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Mumbai, India, as a celebration to Lord Siva. The hotel interior showcases over 100 commissioned artworks of various artists. The hotel’s lobbies, gardens and restaurants are around themes like the Sadashiva icon, deconstructed and seen as fragments of a puzzle…
SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, March 29, 2004: It’s still a mystery how a CD of sacred Tibetan hymns, not widely circulated, muscled its way onto the Grammy jury panel. But creativity is known to break barriers. Monks of the Sherab Ling monastery, some 60 km from Dharamsala, achieved a first, winning the Grammy for the best traditional world music album. This…
Press ReleaseBANGALORE, INDIA, March 31, 2004: Dr. N. S. Rajaram sends this summary of his coming talk on “Genetics on Migrations in History” at the Mythic Society, Nripatunga Road, Bangalore, 560 001, on Friday, April 2 at 6:00 pm. As George Santayana said: “History is always written wrong, it needs always to be rewritten. But first we need to identify…
SourceNEW YORK, NEW YORK, June 9, 2003: This article appeared in the Wall Street Journal last year, but was only brought to HPI’s attention recently. It is by Bruce Gilley and called “Asia’s Quiet Miracle. It is given here in its entirety. As it nears the end of its fifth year in office as the head of a coalition government,…
SourceTRINIDAD, March 31, 2004: Thousands are expected to attend a three-day Ramayan Yagna this weekend at which renowned swami, Parama Puja Sri Sri Ganapati Sachchidanda Swamiji, will deliver discourses on the first 100 stanzas of Sage Valmiki’s Ramayan. The event and is being hosted by quarry magnate Sieunarine Persad Coosal, at his Acono Road, St Joseph, residence. The Swami, who…
SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, March 28, 2004: Charlie and Carol Hopkins write, “As devotees around the world remember and honor the Divine Guru, Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj, on the tenth anniversary of His Mahasamadhi, it is our joy to announce the first visit to North America of Swamiji’s spiritual son, Shri Shivarudra Balayogi. Baba will be coming to the US as part…
SourceUNITED KINGDOM, March 26, 2004: There are no dues or initiation rituals. Your age, citizenship, political affiliation, gender, religion (or lack of it) don’t matter. The invitation comes from Danny Wallace of London. He is the director of a new comedy development for the BBC, and has written a book about how two words, ingenuity, a sense of humor and…
SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, March 21, 2004: Those devotees planning to undertake the month-long Amarnath Yatra to a cave high in the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir State with an ice Siva Lingam will now have two months to complete the trek after it opens on July 1. The Shrine Board says, “Crowd control measures, on the pattern followed by Mata…
Agence France PresseNEW DELHI, INDIA, March 17, 2004: Devotees of the Goddess Vaishnodevi are now able to send donations over the internet or at the Jammu and Kashmir Bank which has branches across India, so that archanas and prayers can be performed on their behalf at the holy shrine. Many pilgrims have chosen this way of reaching out to the…
Sunday Age (Melbourne)MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, March 14, 2004: In a tour coordinated by the Interfaith Network and sponsored by local councils, 18 local government officers and eight police officers were taken to various houses of worship in the city. After visiting Hindu, Greek Orthodox, Buddhist, and Muslim centers as well as other places of worship on their 37-mile journey, senior Constable…