Source NEW DELHI. INDIA, July 31, 2016 (Times of India): Please remove your shoes before entering the room, comes the unusual request from a senior official at the Rail Mail Service (RMS) Bhawan near Delhi’s Kashmere Gate. The room in question was unremarkable until recently, when it became a reliquary for bottled Ganga. The river’s water has seemingly sanctified an…
Source DEHRADUN, INDIA, July 31, 2016 (Daily Pioneer): Heavy rainfall across Uttarakhand has affected the mountainous regions. Due to this, Badrinath Yatra has been suspended temporarily. Several roads across Dehradun district have been blocked too following rainfall-triggered landslides. The administration has made relief centres for those affected by the rains and the landslides the rain had spawned. Special arrangements have…
Source Whenever you have the chance, laugh as much as you can. By this all the rigid knots in your body will be loosened. But to laugh superficially is not enough; your whole being must be united in laughter, both inwardly and outwardly. Do you know how this is to be expressed? You literally shake with merriment from head to…
Source The son’s duty to his father is to make the world ask, “by what great austerities did he merit such a son?”— Tirukkural
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 26, 2016 (Times of India): RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday pitched for spread of compassion as he said practicing the value offers solution to many present-day concerns like extremism of all forms, materialism and self-centeredness among people. “We need to understand what is at the core of our religious traditions. Satya (truth) and shuchita…
Source KOCHI, INDIA, July 26, 2016 (Deccan Chronicle): The Travancore Devaswom Board will set up religious study centres in all temples under it within a year so as to attract more people to the “path of faith,” the board president Prayar Gopalakrishnan said on Monday. “Currently such centers are functional in about 200 temples. We will co-ordinate and streamline their…
Source INDIA, July 28, 2016 (The News Minute): Frustrated by their exclusion from a festival of the Deity Bhadra Kaliamman in the Mahasakhthi Amman temple, 250 Dalit families living in the Pazhangkallimedu and Nagapalli villages in Nagapattinam district recently threatened to convert to Islam. Although caste Hindu authorities have subsequently agreed to allow them a day to celebrate their Deity,…
Source “Sweet are the sounds of the flute and the lute,” say those who have not heard the prattle of their own children.— Tirukkural
Source HIMACHAL PRADESH,INDIA, July 27, 2016 (by Tia Ghose, Live Science News): A damaged and clamped pillar at the Lakshmi Narayan Temple in the Chamba region of India is a sign of a past earthquake. The damage likely occurred hundreds of years ago, meaning the nearby fault has had a lot of time to build up stress. Past earthquakes that…
Source HYDERABAD, INDIA, July 24, 2016 (Deccan Chronicle): Hyderabad and Cyberabad together will have a hundred thousand Ganesh pandals this year. The 10 day-festival will start on September 5 and the Khairatabad Ganesh along with statues exceeding 20 feet will be immersed on September 15. Samiti secretary R. Shashidhar said, “the number of pandals in the twin cities and Cyberabad…