Source UNITED STATES, May 9, 2018 (HAF): Hindu Americans comprise one of the fastest growing populations in the United States. The Hindu American population currently numbers around 2.5 million. This does not include the estimated 32 million people who derive inspiration from Hindu spirituality and engage in Hindu practices such as yoga and meditation. With growing numbers comes an increased…
Source Love is seeing and feeling life everywhere. When your heart is full of love, you sense life pulsating through all creation.— Mata Amritanandamayi Ma, Kerala-based hugging saint
Source INDIA, May 4, 2018 (The Guardian by Richard Eilers): On an epic rail journey, the writer joins 800 Hindu devotees and, thanks to their kindness and friendship, enjoys life on board as much as visits to spectacular temples. Indian Railways’ tourism arm runs dozens of Bharat Darshan tours across India each year – lasting from a few days to…
Source INDIA, April 26, 2018 (Swarajyamag by Manish Maheswari): For Christian missionaries, India is an unfinished project, and it is not because of lack of trying. Every conceivable means has been tried to convert the heathens into the true religion of Christ, from downright annihilation (inquisition at Goa) to sophisticated racial theories (Bishop Robert Caldwell’s Dravidian race theory) meant to…
Source BEJING, CHINA, April 23, 2018 (League of India): In a development that is going to spread joy in the Hindu community, India and China on April 22 agreed to resume the Holy Kailash Mansarovar Yatra through the Natha Lu route in Sikkim. The decision was made during External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj talks with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi…
Source “Important things are not things.”— Swami Tejomayananda, spiritual head of Chinmaya Mission
Source At a national and international level, we will enjoy more peace as we become more tolerant. Religious leaders can help by teaching their congregations how to live in a world of differences without feeling threatened, without forcing their ways or will on others. World bodies can make laws which deplore and work to prevent crimes of violence. It is…
Source UNITED STATES, April 22, 2018 (Swarajyamag by Aseem Shukla and Swaminathan Venkataraman): Nearly a decade ago, when the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) began its textbook entanglements in California, much of the most acrimonious contentions hinged on what was then dogma – the Aryan invasion. American school children were taught that “Aryans”, speaking Sanskrit, had mounted on horses, descended through…
Source We must respect other religions even as we respect our own. Mere tolerance thereof is not enough.— Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Source FRANCE, April 24. 2018 ( The Independent): The measure was put forward by MP Jean-Baptiste Moreau, who based his argument on a judgment last year by the European Court of Justice that soya and tofu products could not be marketed as “milk” or “butter”. Mr Moreau, a farmer and member of President Macron’s En Marche! party tweeted: “It is…