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…
KAUAI, HAWAII, August 19, 2015 (HPI): Hinduism Today is seeking help with a five-sloka Sanskrit guru parampara chant. The project, estimated to take 1-2 hours, involves parsing the language, doing a word-by-word translation. Anyone competent to do this can email our editor-in-chief here: sadasivanatha@hindu.org.
Source SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, August 18, 2015 (Dharma Civilization Foundation): Join us on August 22nd, 2015 at 5 pm to 8.00 pm – at the Wyndham Garden Hotel, San Jose, in support of the Hindu Studies initiative at Berkeley. On that day we will announce a major gift that will endow the “Center for Dharma Studies” at the Graduate Theological…
Source INDIA, August 14, 2015 (Indian Express): In further proof of the growing importance of yoga under the NDA government, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) has decided to fund research on the impact of yoga and meditation on human health — the first time the department has ventured into this area. Research and studies on yoga have so…