President of India Inaugurates ‘Namaste India’

Source INDIA, May 11, 2015 (Press Info Bureau, India): The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, inaugurated a festival of Indian Culture in Russia, “Namaste India,” in Moscow on May 10, 2015. Speaking on the occasion, the President said Indian culture and its heritage of art, music and cinema have enjoyed love and appreciation across Russia over centuries. In India…

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Celebration of the Thakkar Family-DCF Endowed Chair at UCI

Source IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, USA, May 16, 2015 (UCI): May 9th marked the public celebration of the establishment of the “Thakkar Family-DCF Presidential Chair in Vedic and Indic Civilizational Studies”, at the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). A $1.5M gift from the Thakkar Family and Dharma Civilization Foundation (“DCF”) established the endowed chair in January 2015.…

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U.S. Becoming Less Christian, Study Finds; Unaffiliated Group Grows

Source UNITED STATES, May 14, 2015 (NBC News): The share of Americans who do not identify with a religion has grown dramatically and now surpasses every affiliation except evangelical Protestants, according to a survey released Tuesday. The Pew Research Center found that 22.8 percent of Americans were religiously unaffiliated last year — up from 16.1 percent in 2007. That group…

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Fueled by Immigration, Hinduism Becomes Fourth-Largest Faith in US

Source NEW YORK, U.S., May 13, 2015 (Times of India): Fueled by immigration, America’s Hindu population has reached 2.23 million, an increase of about one million or 85.8 percent since 2007, making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, according to estimates based on wide-ranging study of religions in the nation. The proportion of Hindus in the US population rose from 0.4 percent…

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Daily Inspiration

Source His Divine Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj, leader of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, was asked: “If you are trying to convince someone and they remain stubborn and don’t accept what you say, then do you lose your temper?” He responded: “What will we achieve by losing our temper? We try to talk to them, but if they don’t listen, then we…

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The Monk Who Changed Narendra Modi’s life

Source NEW DEHLI,INDIA, May 4, 2015 ( by Mohua Chatterjee, Times of India): When Narendra Modi meets an ailing 95-year-old monk during his visit to Kolkata on May 9, he would be keeping a promise made to the guru whose advice led Modi to politics — and, eventually, the country’s prime ministership. Modi and the swami go back a long…

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Daily Inspiration

Source You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.— Khalil Gibran (1883 1931), Lebanese American mystic, poet and writer

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Landslides Fail to Deter Badrinath’s Pilgrims’ Resolve

Source INDIA, May 2, 2015 (Daily Pioneer): Despite the Rishikesh-Badrinath National Highway-58 being blocked by debris, the pilgrims have continued to travel towards Badrinath, walking from Marwadi to Vishnuprayag bridge en route to Badrinath. Sources said if weather permits, it will still take a few more days for the highway to be cleared and opened for the public. About 6…

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