Source SINGAPORE, January 11, 2016 (News Asia): Live music will be allowed for this year’s Thaipusam street procession for the first time in more than four decades. The Hindu Endowments Board (HEB) and the police said yesterday that musicians, who have been given approval, can play specified traditional instruments at three points along the route.The instruments are the nadaswaram horn,…
Source INDIA, January 8, 2016 (Press Information Bureau): The project of “Cultural Mapping of India” under which data of artists shall be collected, has been initiated by the Ministry of Culture in order to carry out a survey on Cultural Topography of the country. A number of meetings of experts has been held since 15 May, 2015 in order to…
Source Rise above the cycle of unhappiness, desire, acquisition, excitement and unhappiness again.— Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of hinduism today
Source UNITED STATES, January 6, 2016 (Patheos, by Padma Kuppa): I was pleased to start the new year off with information about how, in pre-colonial India, Hindu temples were premier educational institutions. January also reminded me of my own pursuit of Hindu studies: several years ago, I wanted to enroll in a Hindu studies class at a local college, and…
Source HYDERABAD, INDIA, January 10, 2016 (Deccan Chronicle): Presiding Deities in temples will now own lands in Telangana [as is the traditional practice across India for Hindu temples]. The Telangana state government will be registering temple lands in the name of Gods and issue fresh deeds. Since the Deity is a perpetual minor in legal terms, endowment officials in the…
Source India has come to preserve spiritual traditions which many ancient cultures and countries have lost. Today Hinduism represents not only India but the ancient wisdom of humanity. In Hinduism many ancient countries can still rediscover their religious past, their old Gods and their old spiritual traditions.— Ram Swarup (1920-1998), Indian writer and scholar
Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, January 7, 2016 (UCA News): Two members of a banned Islamic militant group have been arrested and charged for the shooting of an Italian missionary priest and the bombing of a Hindu temple in Bangladesh last year. Muhammad Sarwar and Abdur Rahman, alleged members of the Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh, were arrested Jan. 4 and appeared before the…
Source KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, January 7, 2016 (The Sun Daily): The Batu Caves temple committee has spent some US$136,000 on refurbishment works at the Sri Subramaniar Swamy Temple. According Sri Maha Mariamman Temple Devasthanam chairman Tan Sri R. Nadarajah, the money was spent on new tiles, LED lights and upgrading the staircases inside the upper cave temple. He added that…
KAPAA, HAWAII, January 7, 2016: Hinduism Today is trying to find information on the history of the Ganga Canal, specifically the section at the beginning where it passes through Haridwar, and prior to the construction of the canal beginning in 1842. We’ve read that a branch of the river passed by Haridwar prior to the canal construction, and that the…