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Source ORLANDO, USA, May 17, 2017 (press release): The Mahatma Gandhi Center for Nonviolence, Human Rights and World Peace at the Hindu University of America is launching online Certificate, Masters and Doctoral program in Conflict, Peace and Hindu Philosophy (CPH) from July 2017. The program aims at enriching the discipline of Conflict and Peace Studies by providing a Hindu perspective.…

Source INDIA, May 23, 2017 (Slideshare by Arindam Bandyopadhyay): One of the most extraordinary examples of whitewashing of history is the sustained, continuing deletion of two centuries of massive recurrent, man made famine in British India from British and world history. How did these famines occur? The main reason was not bad weather or natural causes but rather the breaking…

Source TOKYO, ,JAPAN, May 22, 2017 (by Pallavi Aiyar, The Hindu ): Amidst the quintessentially Japanese plum blossom trees and antique shops, it is jolting therefore, to stumble upon Matsuchiyama Shoden, a Ganesha temple located on slightly elevated ground by the river. But given the Hindu roots of so many deities in the Japanese Buddhist pantheon, it is not entirely…

Source Do you realize the sacred significance and the supreme importance of the guru’s role in the evolution of man? It was not without reason that the India of the past carefully tended and kept alive the lamp of guru-tattva. It is therefore not without reason that India, year after year, age after age, commemorates anew this ancient concept of…

Source CHENNAI, INDIA, May 19, 2017 (Deccan Chronicle): One of the largest libraries in South Asia, the Anna Centenary Library (ACL) in Kotturpuram will now house 72,000 palm-leaf and paper manuscripts as the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library and Research Centre (GOML) has been moved into the world class facility with all its rare collections this week. Ending the six-year-long wait,…

Source INDIA, May 20, 2017 (Daily Sabah): Some 1,800 people [other reports give a higher number], many of them pilgrims, were stranded after a landslide hit a highway near a Hindu temple site in India’s northern mountainous state of Uttarakhand, officials said Saturday. The landslide triggered by pre-monsoon rains blocked the highway to the Badrinath temple, one of the main…

Source UDUPI, INDIA, May 17 (Daiji World): Sri Krishna Math in the city, which is eight centuries old, has been thoroughly renovated and reconstructed for the first time under the initiative undertaken by Paryaya Sri Vishweshateertha Swamiji of Pejawar Math. The Swamiji’s long-cherished dream has come true. The outer precincts of the Math, which were built of mud in the…

Source If you stick to your principles, life becomes meaningful. Otherwise you become a rudderless vessel that is at the mercy of the winds. — Swami Tejomayananda, spiritual head of Chinmaya Mission

Source BOLIVIA, May 18, 2017 (Eju.tv, translated from Spanish): The International Association of Yoga and Yogism (Yoga en Sintesis) in Bolivia, with the collaboration of India’s automotive icon, Tata Motors and its exclusive distributor, Bolivian Auto Motors, will celebrate on June 21, in the capital of Santa Cruz, the International Yoga Day with a program that is open and free…

Source LONDON, U.K., 1961 (YouTube): The great writer Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, The Perennial Philosophy, The Doors of Perception, Island) describes the “Dancing Shiva” image (Nataraj) of the Hindu tradition and its immense significance and comprehensiveness. This is from an interview with Mr. Huxley which was done in 1961 in London and was recorded and distributed under the title…