Source NEPAL, May 13, 2015 (MNN): Nepal (Mission Network Online): Nepalese are afraid to go inside any building. For the second time in less than three weeks, Nepal was shaken by a 7.3 magnitude earthquake, leaving many dead and hundreds more injured. President of Asian Access Joe Handley says, “The reports fresh from the field [are] that there’s just a…
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…
Source ENGLAND, May 11 , 2015 ( by Kounteya Sinha, Time of India): During one of his campaigning trips, Cameron, who has travelled to India thrice after taking over office in 2010, promised to visit the Akshardham temple in Delhi if he returns to 10 Downing Street as prime minister for the second term. Two days before Britain went into…
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
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…
Source INDIA, TAMIL NADU, May 2, 2015 (The Hindu): Acting swiftly, the district police have cracked the Thiruvadanai temple burglary case by arresting three accused and recovering four century-old statues, hidden in a waterbody. Ten days after burglars struck at the ancient Adhi Rathineeswarar Temple at Thiruvadanai in Ramanathapuram district on April 20 and decamped with the statues, special teams,…
Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, May 3, 2015 (Times of India): If there is anything that last week’s earthquake hasn’t changed in the devastated Basantpur Durbar Square, it’s the daily worship of Kumari, Nepal’s living virgin Goddess. Even a week after the devastating 7.9-magnitude quake left much of Nepal in ruins with the toll nearing 7,000, her puja continues as usual at…
Source The test of a man is how much he can bear and how much he can share and how soon he confesses a mistake and makes amends for it.— Dada J.P. Vaswani
Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, April 29, 2015 (National Geographic, by Thomas C. Kelly): In the introduction to this National Geographic photo feature, Kelly–whose work has appeared for years in Hinduism Today–writes, “I believe that with compassion and reciprocity, a photographer who is willing to stay and be part of a place and its community can capture the depth of an authentic…
Source Actions are the louder expression of thought. The quality of thought is ordered by the nature of our inner belief and faith.— Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993), founder of Chinmaya Mission