Source BALIKPAPAN, INDONESIA, May 5, 2014 (Kaltim Post): It’s not only Indonesia’s Muslims who have the halal bi-halal ceremony. Indonesian Hindus also have a tradition of a day dedicated to seeking forgiveness and harmony with friends and relatives. It’s called Dharma Santi and is observed after the Nyepi New Year’s day. Dharma Santi means cleaning the mental, moral, and spiritual…
Source When I think of myself as a body, I am your servant, my Lord; when I think of myself as an individual soul, I am part of you; but when I realize I am atman, you and I become one.— Lord Hanuman in the epic Ramayana
Source BUENOS, AIRES, May 12, 2014 (lanoticia1): Begun on May 10th, India Week will continue until the 16th at the Municipal House of Culture in the Amarante Brown district of the capital. A wealth of mysticism and ancient Indian culture with the best of cinema, music, dance, literature, cuisine, philosophy, meditation and yoga is being presented. Daniel Bolettieri, mayor of…
Source BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, May 12, 2014 (NDTV): Ahead of the ensuing annual Rath Yatra festival, the Jagannath Temple managing committee today asked the Odisha government to stop the practice of devotees climbing atop chariots and touching the Lord. Puri King Gajapati King Divyasingha Deb, who headed the committee, said this while presiding over a meeting of religious heads who supported…
Source CAMBODIA, May 15, 2014 (by Laignee Barron, Phnom Penh Post): Buoyed by a series of recent antiquity return agreements, Cambodia hoped it would soon restore the full panoply of statues looted from a 10th-century temple north of Angkor Wat. But an Ohio art museum announced yesterday that a sculpture it houses will not be making the return trip just…
Source CAMBODIA, May 15, 2014 (by Laignee Barron, Phnom Penh Post): Buoyed by a series of recent antiquity return agreements, Cambodia hoped it would soon restore the full panoply of statues looted from a 10th-century temple north of Angkor Wat. But an Ohio art museum announced yesterday that a sculpture it houses will not be making the return trip just…
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 it…
Source CHICAGO, USA, May 15, 2014 (by Tim Sommers): India Unveiled’s author Robert Arnett and Editor, Smita Turakhia have done it again. The sixth edition of the beautifully produced, multi-award winning coffee table book will be released by Publisher Atman Press on May 22, 2014. The new volume contains 308 pages and 307 photographs reproduced on acid-free archival paper. With…
Source MAURITIUS, February 21, 2014( Le Mauricien): A Tamil-style Hindu temple was consecrated in the precinct of the new high-security Melrose Prison in the presence of representatives from religious bodies of surrounding villages, members of non-governmental organizations as well as executives of the prison. The new prison now has four places of worship, two of them Hindu, for prisoners. The…
Source CAMBODIA, November 28, 2013 (The Diplomat by Damian Evans): In June of this year, along with sixteen of my colleagues, I published an academic paper on the use of airborne laser scanning (“lidar”) for archaeology that made front-page news across the world [see above article]. In it, we described how we had used lidar technology to uncover and map…