Source SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, April 12, 2016 (India West): Strengthening its fight against proposed edits to the California school curriculum, which seek to remove some references to India and Hinduism and replace them with the terms “South Asia” and “ancient Indian religion,” respectively, the Hindu American Foundation launched a campaign on social media April 6 to keep Hindu and Indian history…
Source NASHIK, INDIA, April 12, 2016 (Deccan Chronicle): The Trimbakeshwar Temple authorities have gone back on their April 3 resolution wherein they decided to ban entry of men, too, into the core worship area at the famous Lord Shiva shrine here. A meeting of the Trimbakeshwar Devasthan Trust held here on Sunday cancelled its earlier resolution restricting entry of males…
Source GUADELOUPE, April 9, 2016 (News Gram): Guadeloupe is situated in the Northern Caribbean and French is spoken on the island. In the mid 1860’s around 45,000 people were brought to here by the French government from south India to work in the sugar plantations. When the British government adopted a policy against hiring people from other territories, the French…
Source Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between ‘myself’ and ‘yourself’ will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.— Anandamayi Ma (1896-1982), God-intoxicated yogini and mystic Bengali saint
TRINDAD, April 11, 2016 (by Dr. Prithiviraj Bahadursingh, yatra coordinator): In February 2015, the first Shivganga Maha Yatra was held where Yyatris walked from Gangadhara (Marianne river, Blanchisseuse, Trinidad, considered as Mother Ganga in Trinidad) to the Patiram trace Shiva temple, covering 126 km over five days, carrying Ganga jala, observing maunam (silence) and doing the mental japa of “Om…
Source Love gives and gives and gives and seeks no return. Therefore, love has nothing to lose–and consequently, nothing to fear.— Dada J.P. Vaswani, spiritual head of Sadhu Vaswani Mission
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 8, 2016 (Gulf News): New Delhi: A liquor ban imposed in the Indian state of Bihar was supposed to clean up public life. But it has had the unintended effect of deterring Hindu followers from temples, where liquor is a traditional offering. Bihar’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar this week fulfilled an election pledge to introduce…
Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, February 22, 2016 (Daily Times): Suspected militants stabbed and killed a Hindu priest at a temple in Bangladesh on Sunday, and shot and injured a devotee who went to his aid, police said. Bangladesh has suffered a wave of militant violence in recent months, including a series of bomb attacks on mosques and Hindu temples. Some of…
Source There the eye goes not, nor words, nor mind. We know not. We cannot understand how He can be explained. He is above the known, and He is above the unknown. Thus have we heard from the ancient sages who explained this truth to us.— Sama Veda, Kena Upanishad 1.3
Source INDIA, November 2, 2016 (Earth We Are One): India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests have made a groundbreaking decision to completely forbid the keeping of captive dolphins for public entertainment in the entire country. A statement about their new policy was released Friday, the ministry advised the state governments to deny any proposals that requested the establishment of a…