Source MUMBAI, INDIA, September 4, 2015 (Mid Day): With Ganesh Chaturthi round the corner, September 17 to be precise, devotees in the city are in preparation mode to welcome Mumbai’s elephant God. Due to a scarcity of pandits during the Ganesh festival K.J. Somaiya Bharatiya Sanskriti Peetham has designed a special Ganesh puja course. In a workshop conducted recently, participants…
Source PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA, September 8, 2015 (Khmer Times): Addressing a sore point in bilateral relations, Hor Namhong, a Deputy Prime Minister, asked Ambassador Naveen Srivastava to stop work on an Angkor Wat Temple replica, planned by Mahavir Mandir, a Hindu trust based in the eastern Indian state of Bikar. “Angkor Wat Temple is the heart of Cambodia, and the…
Source Life should be dynamic, full of movement, flowing endlessly like the mighty Ganges. Life’s movement should be channelled in the right direction. Life becomes a burden for many people because it has lost its dynamism. For them life is not like a flowing river. It is a static, turbid puddle. Understand that action gives movement to life, knowledge gives…
Source If you have not seen your own Self, if you have not pierced the knots of your Heart and washed away the filth of your mind, then what does it matter if you are a human being?— Kabir
Source UNITED STATES, September 4, 2015 (Open by Murali Balaji): In 1855, German Indologist Albrecht Weber wrote to the Prussian minister of culture on the benefits of continued investment in the study of classical Indian traditions, arguing that only he and his brethren could shed light on what was previously “dark” to the rest of the world. By studying the…
Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, September 14, 2015 (Daily Star): Nepal’s Constituent Assembly rejected calls to revert the Himalayan nation to a Hindu state during voting Monday on a draft of the country’s long-delayed new constitution, sparking violent protests. The constitution has been delayed by years of disagreements between Nepal’s main political parties, and the voting on the draft – expected to…
Source NEPAL, September 14, 2015 (Hindustan Times): Nepal’s lawmakers on Monday voted against an amendment proposal in a draft of the country’s new constitution to declare the Himalayan nation a Hindu state, triggering protests in the capital Kathmandu. Only 21 members of the 601-strong constituent assembly voted in favor of the proposal forwarded by the right-wing Rashtriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal. A…
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 UNITED STATES, September 8, 2015 (Hindu American Foundation by Murali Balaji): When I was nine, my teacher asked me if the monkey-brain eating scene from an Indiana Jones movie was a common Hindu practice. Unfortunately, that was the least of my problems in class. Now, as the Director of Education at the Hindu American Foundation, I’m making it my…
Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, September 8, 2015 (The Shillong Times): Bangladesh’s High Court today rejected a writ petition by a Hindu lawyer questioning constitutional acknowledgement of Islam as the state religion in the “secular” country. “The court summarily rejected the petition,” Deputy Attorney General Khorshedul Alam told reporters after the two-member bench came up with the ruling on the writ filed…