Source INDIA, June 11, 2016 (BBC by Dinyar Patel): Drought and a searing heat wave have affected an astonishing 330 million people across the country. But this summer also marks the 150th anniversary of a far more terrible and catastrophic climatic event: the Orissa famine of 1866. Hardly anyone today knows about this famine. Yet the Orissa famine killed over…
Source MIRI, BORNEO, MALAYSIA, June 13, 2016 (The Borneo Post): More than 1,000 members of the Miri Hindu Society (MHS) will have a place to worship once their temple is completed by the end of this month. The Sri Kamini Thurga Iswari Amman Alayam Temple at Taman Tunku here will be the first Hindu temple here. MHS chairman Selvaraj Grapragasem…
Source “Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child, the whole world is your own.”— Sri Sarada Devi (1853-1920) wife of Sri Ramakrishna
KAUAI, HAWAII, June 13, 2016: Hinduism Today is seeking a volunteer to translate the quarterly Publisher’s Desk editorial to Gujarati, four annually. The pieces are about 1,500 words long. Please contact our editor, Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami, at sadasivanatha@hindu.org.
Source MEXICO CITY, MEXICO, June 9, 2016 (Indian Express): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday arrived at Mexico City on the final leg of his five-nation tour. PM Modi held restricted talks with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto at Los Pinos. In a very special gesture, Mexican President Nieto personally drove Narendra Modi to a restaurant for Mexican vegetarian fare.…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 8, 2016 (Deccan Chronicle): Suryanamaskar asana will not be part of this year’s Yoga Day celebrations and chanting of Om won’t be compulsory even though yoga is incomplete without it, Ayush Minister Shripad Naik said on Wednesday about the June 21 event which is expected to entail a collective cost of hundreds of crores of…
Source INDIA, June 10, 2016 (Press Information Bureau): HPI Note: We were struck by this long press release listing what appear to be tens of thousands of events being set up by the government for the Day of Yoga. Addressing a press conference at Chandigarh today regarding the preparations for International Day of Yoga, which is to be celebrated at…
Source UNITED KINGDOM, June 10, 2016 (Marxists.org): HPI Note: This extraordinary 1907 report by a Britisher details the deadly exploitation of India people and resources by the British Raj. The British Empire in India is the most striking example in the history of the world of the domination of a vast territory and population by a small minority of an…
Source The whole path is a total surrendering. All four sects of Hinduism meet in surrender, prapatti, to the Divine.— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
Source At this time in the Kali Yuga, ignorance is equally distributed worldwide, and wisdom has become an endangered species.— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today