Source LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, May 4, 2016 (New York Times): Victors are said to write history. But in California, history is being written by a committee that is at the center of a raging debate over how to tell the story of South Asia as it tries to update textbooks and revise curriculums for Grades 6 and 7. The dispute…
Source UJJAIN, INDIA, May 5, 2016 (Outlook): Seven people were killed and around 90 others injured when heavy rains accompanied by lightning and squalls flattened and uprooted makeshift tents of pilgrims in and around the site of ongoing Simbatha Kumbh Mela here this evening. According to police official B.S. Chauhan, nearly a third of the tents put up by the…
Source The pweor of the hmuan mnid: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae…
Source MASSACHUSETTS, USA, May 5, 2016 (by Michael O’loughlin,The Atlantic): HPI Note: Trustees of temples in the US should pay attention to this unusual court case which could ultimately impact their organization. The Massachusetts Supreme Court will decide whether a local shrine should be tax-exempt–a decision that could have broad implications for faith organizations in America. A case now in…
Source DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, May 5, 2016 (by Sherlissa Peters, IOL): Devotees of the Northdale Siva Nyana Sabha in Pietermaritzburg have been left devastated by a burglary which desecrated the temple. According to the chairman of the temple in Chetty Road, Sagren Phillips, the burglars smashed down the boundary wall between the temple and Ramatha Primary School at the weekend…
Source BHOPAL, INDIA, April 22, 2016 (Times of India): Politicians, judges, bureaucrats, industrialists, movie stars and celebrities of all shades planning to take a holy bath this Simhastha Kumbh Mela at Ujjain have been told by an “overburdened” Madhya Pradesh police that they will not be provided with additional security, sparing personnel at the expense of routine cover for the…
Source Devotion must not be like the flood of the rainy season in which all get washed away. Devotion should be like the river that retains water even in the hottest season.— Saint Kabir (1440-1518)
Source INDIA, May 2, 2016 (My Digitalfc by Michel Danino): All too predictable — we seem to have gone through this countless times in recent years. No sooner had the ministry of human resource development (MHRD) issued a circular to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) encouraging them to initiate teaching activities centred on Sanskrit and in particular on texts of…
Source SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, May 2, 2016 (HAF): The Hindu American Foundation (HAF), the advocacy organization for the Hindu American community, has today announced the release of its 2016 “Bullying in American Schools” report. The report includes testimonies and data demonstrating how Hindu American students are being singled out, bullied, and ostracized by their peers, largely due to academic curricula…
Source ILLINOIS, U.S., May 2, 2016 (North by Northwesternby Gauri Rangrass): I remember the first time I wished I were white. I was four years old. My brownness was harder to hide. It was something I spent fifteen years of my life trying to like, and eventually, love. My internal battle with Hinduism was even more difficult. It was not…