Source UNITED STATES, September 2, 2015 (Hindu Students Association): As of June 2015, same sex marriage has been legal nationwide in the United States of America with the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that state level bans on same sex marriage are unconstitutional. The court also ruled that the denial of marriage licenses to same sex couples and…
Source INDIA, September 7, 2015 (Ancient Origins): Imagine a country so dry that you have to build a 10-level stepped structure going down into the earth to get water. Such is India, where thousands of ingenious stepwells were built from the 2nd century AD through the 19th century, many financed by philanthropists, to whom the parched population were entirely grateful…
Source HYDERABAD, INDIA, September 4, 2015 (The Hindu): The annual Vinayaka Chaturthi festivities will commence on the 17the with installation of around 100,000 statues in the city and culminate with immersion of statues on September 27. The centralized statue immersion procession will head for Hussain Sagar lake. Speaking to press persons here on Wednesday, Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsav Samithi General Secretary…
Source LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, September 6, 2015 (YouTube): HPI recommends this charming short by comedian Rajiv Satyal on the marvel of being “Indian”.
Source CHENNAI, INDIA, August 27 2015 (Times of India): India has 2.87 million people who have no faith in any religion — 0.24% of the country’s population of 1.21 billion — according to the 2011 census, which was the first to include a non-faith category . The figure includes atheists, rationalists as well as those not interested in any religion…
Source NEW YORK, U.S., September 2, 2015 (Oswego): In a newly published book, physics professor Alok Kumar and his co-author seek to set the record straight on how Europe’s scientific revolution depended profoundly on ideas and innovations passed down from ancient cultures. “A History of Science in World Cultures: Voices of Knowledge,” published by Routledge, traces the origins of European…
Source Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: Why am I doing it? What might the results be? Can I be successful? Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, then proceed.— Chanakya (350-275 bce), Indian politician, strategist and writer
Source Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man and silence is necessary in order to surmount it.— Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian spiritual leader
Source August 29, 2015 (Sutra Journal): Sutra Journal introduces their free, monthly online magazine with a Dharmic focus, featuring articles on yoga, vedanta, tantra, Buddhism, ayurveda and Indology. Yoga arose and exists within the Dharma, which is a set of timeless teachings, holistic in nature, covering the gamut from the worldly to the metaphysical, and from science to art and…
Source INDIA, August 31, 2015 (by Hari RajivKumar, Daily O): From the limited information available about our past, we know that Hinduism is the oldest religion (or “way of life”, as some people prefer to call it) and in this tradition, the Rigveda Samhita is the oldest work. Perhaps the most famous verse from the Rigveda is the savit? g?yatr?…