Source COIMBATORE, INDIA, July 9, 2016 (The Hindu): When Vikas Muntot wanted to do something, agitated as he was over the frequent elephant deaths in Coimbatore, he looked to none other than the elephant-headed God for help. The 22-year-old businessman from Rajasthan, who has made the city his home, organized a Maha Ganapathy Yagam (special prayer to Lord Vinayaga) on…
Source CALCUTTA, INDIA, July 15, 2016 (Latin American Herald Tribune): Hindu devotees have rushed to post offices across India this week in hopes of snatching up the first deliveries of holy water from the Ganga. The new scheme, which was launched by the central government on Sunday, allows water from the Ganga river, known as Gangajal, to be put up…
Source GREAT BRITAIN, June 2, 2016 (New Asian Post): The influential think tank, the Dharmic Ideas Policy Foundation, is urging Asian voluntary organizations to join it in calling for a repeal of the caste discrimination clause provision in the Equality Act 2010. The Foundation believes that voluntary organizations and community groups are unaware of the huge implications of its effect…
Source As to a mountain that’s enflamed, deer and birds do not resort–so, with knowers of God, sins find no shelter.— Krishna Yajur Veda, Maitreya Upanishads 6.18
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 13, 2016 (Times of India): The government has cleared projects worth over US$ 224 million under three schemes – Ramayana circuit, Krishna circuit and Buddhist circuit – as part of its focus on religious tourism. The projects helmed by the tourism ministry are spread primarily over UP, and Bihar and will develop infrastructure including road…
Source WASHINGTON, U.S., July 12, 2016 (Silicon India): California State Board of Education is in the final stages of revising and updating the K-12 History-Social Science Framework for public schools. Tulsi Gabbard, the first ever Hindu elected to the US House of Representatives, has asked a Californian educational board to give Hinduism its due place in school textbooks and not…
Source SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, July 16, 2016 (India Live Today): The State Education Board in California has approved a new school curriculum framework which will include richer content on ancient India and Hinduism for the first time. The framework, which will update and upgrade history and social science instruction in California, was developed over a period of two years, went through…
Source If you have not seen your own Self, if you have not pierced the knots of your Heart and washed away the filth of your mind, then what does it matter if you are a human being?— Kabir
Source USA, July 10, 2016 (by Rachel Premack, Washington Post): It may be delicious, but the evidence is accumulating that meat, particularly red meat, is just a disaster for the environment — and not so great for human beings, too. By 2050, scientists forecast that emissions from agriculture alone will account for how much carbon dioxide the world can use…
Source ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, July 7, 2016 (The Hindu): While the free fall of statues from various towers in the Srikalahastheeswara temple over the last few months, though brushed aside as sporadic instances, continues unabated, a similar incident witnessed in the Pallikondeswara Swamy temple in Surutupalle village of Nagalapuram mandal triggered further panic. The latest incident was attributed to heavy…