Source UNITED STATES, May 17, 2019 (Pragyata by Vamsee Juluri): The Wester media coverage of events in India have a heavy tilt where they repeatedly show Hindus in a bad light. There have been several news reports, analyses and opinion pieces published in important Western media outlets in the past few months about the ongoing elections in India. The New…
Source It is not a matter of becoming the Self, but of realizing that you never were not the Self. — Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
Source KAUAI, HAWAII, June 1, 2019: HPI is reaching out to find a great writer/communicator to create the text for four large (4′ by 8′) posters on the subject of Dharma in the US and the history/story of Hindus in American. The posters will seek to cover the principal aspects of dharma and to present how Hindus have brought Dharma…
Source UNITED STATES, May 28, 2019 (Religion News): HPI note: Hinduism Today has long encourage the development of a Hindu chaplaincy to serve in hospitals, the military and universities. This article helps explain their function. A common perception of clergy who work in hospitals is that they are there to perform last rites for the terminally ill, or prompt 11th-hour…
Source Men who can brave death on the battlefield are common; but rare are they who can face an audience without fear. — Tirukural 723
Source RAJAHMUNDRY, INDIA, May 28, 2019 (Deccan Chronicle): Officials of the popular Lord Satyanarayana temple at Annavaram in East Godavari will impose a dress code on devotees who will visit the temple to perform rituals and puja from July 1. Temple officials said the male devotees will be required to wear a shirt, a dhoti and a kanduva shawl while…
Source GHANA, AFRICA, May 29, 2019 (Ghana Web): The Head of the Hindu Monastery of Africa, the most revered Ghanaian, Swami Satyanand Saraswati, has died on Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Swami Satyanand joined the divine order of Sannyasi when he was initiated by his Guru Swami Ghananand Saraswati on the 12th February, 2012. Swami Satyanand was a Ghanaian born a…
Source Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practice even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action. — Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886), famed guru of Swami Vivekananda
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 21, 2019 (Prensa Latina, translated from Spanish): A Cuban delegation from the Ministry of Public Health paid a working visit to India to learn about the experiences of applying different modalities of traditional medicine in that populous country. Specialists and officials headed by Vice Minister Alfredo Gonzalez traveled from Havana with the purpose of broadening…
Source GOA, INDIA, May 27, 2019 (Inditales by Anuradha Goyal): Mallikarjuna temple in Goa is located in the far south of the state in the Canacona district. It almost borders the state of Karnataka. Like most temples in Goa, it is also a unique temple, with a history full of stories. The ritual Shisha Ranni, when I first heard about,…