Source SELANGOR, MALAYSIA, January 24, 2016 (Malay Mail): More than a million Hindus in Malaysia celebrated the colorful Thaipusam festival today, thronging temples to display their devotion with wince-inducing body piercing and offerings to the Deity Murugan. Hundreds of thousands converged on the Batu Caves an important religious site for Tamil Hindus on Kuala Lumpur’s outskirts with many walking up…
Source True gurus are available in every religion. They may not be in the ordinary world of strife, for such a world does not want them, nor have they any use for it. Go, therefore, in search of a true master. He is ever available and is only waiting for a symptom of real earnestness in you. If you have…
Source CHENNAI, INDIA, January 25, 2016 (B. Shivkumar, TNN): In the five-year period from 2010 to 2015, India displaced Russia as the country with the largest diaspora in the world, as per UN data on migrants for 2015. While the UAE, with its job opportunities for all sections of people, tops as the preferred destination for India-born migrants, the US,…
Source CHENNAI, January 25, 2016 ( Deccan Chronicle): The Australian government on Friday made it clear that Sri Lankan refugees from Tamil Nadu are no longer welcome in its country as they are not from refugee camps approved by United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC). Nearly 1,200 Lankan refugees tried to travel in boats from Indian subcontinent to Australia between…
Source CHANDIGARH,INDIA, January 25, 2016 (Press Information Bureau): The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and President Mr. Francois Hollande paid a joint visit to the Government Museum and Art Gallery in Chandigarh, as part of their engagements during the State Visit of President Hollande to India on 24 January 2016.The two viewed the displays of archaeological findings from the foothills…
Source SOUTH AFRICA, January 25, 2016 (News 24): The highly-acclaimed dance drama Skanda will showcase during the auspicious observance of Thaipoosam Kavadi at the Shree Veeraboga Cultural Centre on Saturday, 16 January. The show, which has been brought to Tongaat by the Brake Village Siva Soobramaniar Alayam makes a return after playing to capacity audiences at the Playhouse in Durban…
Source WASHINGTON, D.C., January 28, 2016 (HAF): Leaders of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) applauded the Virginia Board of Education’s adoption of new history and social science curriculum frameworks, which significantly improved upon the previous versions of the draft. HAF had previously worked with the Virginia Department of Education to improve language in their history-social science standards of learning and…
Source MALAYSIA, January 22, 2016 (The Star): The sound emanating from the urumee, a double-headed hourglass-shaped drum commonly used by village musicians in south India, easily attracts a crowd. During Thaipusam, urumee melam (drum beat) groups typically accompany kavadi and milk pot bearers to give them strength and courage to fulfil their vows. In Malaysia, especially Perak, the urumee is…
Source In thinking ‘This is I’ and ‘That is mine’ one binds himself with himself, as does a bird with a snare.— Krishna Yajur Veda, Maitreya Upanishad 3.2
Source RAMESWARAM, INDIA, January 25, 2016 (Deccan Chronicle): Even as the consecration of the Sri Ramanathaswamy temple here was performed on a grand scale with utmost religious fervor on Wednesday, a controversy brewed over the alleged sidelining by the temple authorities of the visiting Sankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt, Sri Jayendra Saraswathy. While the pre-consecration rituals including the yaga…