Source JAIPUR, INDIA, August 25, 2015 (Nation): Thousands of members of the austere Jain religion protested across India on Monday for the legal right to take part in an ancient ritual of starving themselves to death. Dressed in traditional white kurtas and trousers and holding banners that read “Suicide is crime, Santhara is religion”, they marched silently through the city…
Source HYDERABAD, INDIA, august 22, 2015 (The Hindu): Environmental concerns is an issue that crops up each year in the runup to Vinayak Chaturthi in the city. And like in previous years, immersion of statues in Hussainsagar Lake scheduled in the last week of September grabbed the spotlight this time too. Built in 1562, the lake dividing the twin cities…
Source INDIA, August 21, 2015 (Storypick): People consider India to be incompetent when it comes to organising things, but this news might change that perspective to some extent. A book produced by scholars and students of Harvard University along with architects and town planners of international repute, declared that Maha Kumbh 2013 at Prayag to be better organized than FIFA…
Source HYDERABAD, INDIA, August 19, 2015 (Deccan Chronicle): The AP endowments department on Tuesday said that Hindu temples and their properties are not government assets. Revenue department principal secretary J.S.V. Prasad said temples were never constructed by the government with taxpayers’ money. They were built by Hindu philanthropists, mutts, peetams and zamindars since ancient times. “The government is only acting…
Source MUMBAI, INDIA, August 12, 2015 (Radio and Music): Big FM (that’s a privately-owned radio station in India which covers 45 cities, fyi) welcomes the largest Indian festival of the year with a Big twist of green, the Big Green Ganesha. The campaign was laid down in 2008 with the vision for a better eco-friendly future and has received tremendous…
Source KOZHIKODE, INDIA, August 15, 2015 (Deccan Chronicle): The state government’s lethargy in sanctioning funds for the temples has left many employees in a deep crisis. Several employees like those of Karikkad temple in Manjeri have not received salaries for the last four years. The Devaswom Board had refused to give funds citing that the temple had a revenue of…
Source ABU DHABI, August 16, 2015 (Times of India): On the occasion of PM Narendra Modi’s visit, a long wait for the Indian community in UAE ended as the government there announced its decision to allot land for building a temple in Abu Dhabi. PM Modi thanked the UAE leadership for this landmark decision. “A long wait for the Indian…
KAUAI, HAWAII, August 21, 2015 (HPI): Hinduism Today is seeking good quality, uplifting photos of Hindus doing karma yoga, seva, to illustrate the Educational Insight on that subject in the Jan/Feb/March, 2016, issue. We want to depict the wide range of activities, such as cleaning at the temple, polishing brass, feeding devotees, offering charity and medical help to the community.…
Source INDIA, August 16, 2015 (Scroll.in): Yoga has so far been almost entirely within the ambit of India’s Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy). Now the Ministry of Science wants in on it too. The Department of Science and Technology has launched a new research program it calls SATYAM, short for Science and Technology of Yoga and…
Source PEN, INDIA, August 11, 2015 (Malay Mail): Recently married, Namrata Raut returned to her family home in rural western India to paint hundreds of Ganesha statues ahead of a major Hindu festival celebrating the elephant-headed Deity. Pen, in Maharashtra state, is renowned for its exquisitely designed and beautifully colored statues of the auspicious God, which are sold around the…