Source SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, March 17, 2016: A petition on the above topic has been posted at change.org. The introduction reads: School students in California will be forced to learn that there was never an “India” unless you act! A small group of South Asia studies faculty recently asked the California Board of Education to change the History Social Science…
Source KANTHMANDU, NEPAL, March 18, 2016 (Kathmandu Post): Pashupatinath Temple witnessed nearly 1.5 million footfalls during the two-week long Maha Shivaratri fair, organizers said. According to the organizers, the fair has been able to do a business of around US$1.8 million so far. The Maha Shivaratri Festival and Industrial Trade Fair 2016 which began at Pashupatinath on March 8, a…
Source If you long to see God, take to spiritual practices. What is the good of merely crying, “O God! O God!”?— Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886)
Source INDIA, March 15, 2016 (Press Information Bureau): A total number of 297 Indian Systems of Medicine (ISM) Colleges are imparting Ayurveda education in the country. The total intake capacity in Under-graduate course of Ayurveda is 17,192 students and in Post-graduate courses is 3,661 students every year. Government of India has approved and notified National AYUSH Mission (NAM) on Sept.…
Source NEW YORK, U.S., March 14, 2016 (Huffington Post): A dozen college students dressed in every color, their long kurtas studded with tiny light-catching mirrors, assembled in the wings at Columbia University’s Roone Arledge Auditorium in New York. They swayed nervously from foot to foot, going over the steps of their traditional Indian folk dance routine in their heads, before…
Source INDIA, March 12, 2016 (Daily O by Michael Fischman): As an American visiting India to participate in Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s WCF, I have been shocked at the way the media has covered the controversy over the event. I find it deplorable that in the reporting of the alleged Yamuna flood plain degradation and NGT response – the media…
Source KAUAI, HAWAII, March 13, 2016 (Hinduism Today): Hinduism Today’s latest issue has gone one line and is available at source above, or you can download our HT app and get the full magazine on your mobile device at http://www.bit.ly/HT-APP. We continue our series of in-depth articles on the holy sites of India with an 18-page adventure in Haridwar. Our…
Source Hindu Dharma was a great reconciler. It reconciled various viewpoints, various doctrines. It knew how to look at things from various angles and viewpoints. It knew no conflict between science and religion, between rationalism and spiritualism. It was so because it was not dogmatic in reason or religion.— Ram Swarup (1920-1998), distinguished spokesperson of Hindu spirituality and culture in…
Source INDIA, March 9, 2016 (Press Information Bureau): Ministry of External Affairs organizes the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra in cooperation with the State Governments of Uttarakhand, Delhi, and Sikkim along with Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). The Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam Limited (KMVN), and Sikkim Tourism Development Cooperation (STDC) make logistical arrangements including accommodation, food, and transport on the Indian side for…
Source NEW YORK, U.S., March 13, 2016 (IANS) Four days before two ancient Jain and Hindu statues estimated to be worth $450,000 were to be auctioned off, US officials swooped on the international art auction house Christie’s here and seized them, according to the Homeland Security Department. The statues seized Friday by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents in “Operation…