Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 26, 2017 (Indian Express): Animal markets — pashu haat or pashu mela as they are popularly known in many parts of the country — can no longer be used to sell or buy cattle for purposes of slaughtering them for meat. The Environment Ministry today issued new rules to regulate these animal markets with the…
Source To attain stillness of speech and thought at once is mauna. Mauna with speech alone is but a state of dumbness. Only when speech and thought are alike in mauna are you in a state of perfection. — Tirumantiram 1896
Source SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, May 18, 2017 (Hindu Education Foundation): Indian-American students and parents from across the state gathered at the California Department of Education (CDE) today to oppose the negative portrayal of Hinduism and India in proposed school textbooks. At the public hearing conducted by the Department, they expressed anguish at the recurring problem of adverse reflection of Hinduism and…
Source Hinduism is not a definite dogmatic creed, but a vast, complex and subtly unified mass of spiritual thought and realization. Its tradition of the Godward endeavor of the human spirit has been continuously enlarging through the ages. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), philosopher, statesmen and second President of India
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…