NEPAL, July 22, 2015 (by Julia A. Seymour): HPI Note: This report is from a Christian website. Christians and Muslims in Nepal are criticizing the draft version of a new constitution that bans religious conversion. Spurred to action by the recent earthquake, Nepal’s government introduced the draft for public comment on June 30, Reuters reported. The draft states that “any…
Source There the eye goes not, nor words, nor mind. We know not. We cannot understand how He can be explained. He is above the known, and He is above the unknown. Thus have we heard from the ancient sages who explained this truth to us.— Sama Veda, Kena Upanishad 1.3
Source WASHINGTON, DC, July 21, 2015 (Religion News Service): From a zero-waste synagogue to global development work after natural disasters, environmental projects by faith leaders are being hailed by the Obama administration as examples of exemplary leadership on climate change. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy highlighted initiatives by a dozen leaders from a range of faiths, who were recognized…
Source KUALA LUMPUR, July 20, 2015 (The Rakyat Post): Hindu worshipper of a 79-year-old temple in Cheras were shocked to find themselves locked out from the place of worship. As word spread, it resulted in a crowd gathering. The timely arrival of police prevented any untoward incident, who ordered the temple main doors to be unlocked. And surprisingly, the individual…
Source Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.— Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941) celebrated Bengali writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
Source INDIA, July 19, 2015 (The News Minute): Conventional wisdom has it that lowly-ranked sepoy Mangal Pandey became the catalyst for India’s first uprising against Western rule in 1857 after he revolted against the alleged use of cattle and pig lard smeared on bullet cartridges used in Enfield rifles issued by the East India Company. Now a sustained campaign is…
Source Man arrives at immortality by breaking beyond the limitations not only of his physical self, but of his mental and his ordinary psychic nature into the highest plane and supreme ether of the Truth: for there is the foundation of immortality and the native seat of the triple infinite.— Sri Aurobindo (1879-1950)
Source UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA, July 19, 2015: (Financial Express): Around 400 children, from across the country, aged between 9 and 11 years, came to take the entrance test for 25 seats in the traditional Vedic vidyalayas schools of Allahabad. Most of them were from Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Only 150 students had appeared for the…
Source INDIA, July 18, 2015 (Firstpost, by Rajeev Srinivasan): HPI note: following are excerpts from this long essay which may be read in full at “source” above. See also R. Jagannathan’s article at http://www.firstpost.com/india/rajiv-malhotras-net-plagiarism-charge-shows-no-longer-man-ignore-2349652.html, which goes into more detail on the exact instances of alleged plagiarism, and Shoaib Daniyal’s article, http://scroll.in/article/740814/plagiarism-row-how-rajiv-malhotra-become-the-ayn-rand-of-internet-hindutva. There has been a lot of commotion over on…
Source What has learning profited a man, if it has not led him to worship the Good Feet of Him who is pure knowledge itself?— Tirukkural