Source BANGLADESH, February 10, 2014 (The Daily Star by Abbas Faiz, Amnesty International’s Bangladesh Researcher): For anyone who has followed the news from Bangladesh since the country’s January 5 elections, the last few weeks’ headlines have made for grim reading. Dozens have been killed in the street protests that raged across Bangladesh during the weeks around the vote, and with…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 12, 2014: US author Wendy Doniger’s controversial book “The Hindus: An Alternative History,” which had created a stir among various Hindu groups over allegedly “defaming the Hindu religion and freedom fighters,” will be pulled out of the Indian market after its publishers decided to “withdraw and recall all the copies from India.” The “amicable settlement”…
Source Wealth and happiness are not related to each other as cause and effect. An attempt to secure happiness by securing wealth is as futile as it is absurd. — Jagadguru Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati Mahaswamigal(1912-1954), 34th pontiff of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham
Source PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, May 4, 2014 (Southern California Public Radio): When Neil Bajpayee, a Pennsylvania-born Indian-American, made his vows in Sanskrit to Stephanie Young, a Californian raised in a non-religious family, he became the first member of his family to marry a non-Indian, non-Hindu. Shukavak Dasa, the Hindu priest marrying the couple, had seen it all before. Weddings between Indian-American…
Source There is something beyond our mind which abides in silence within our mind. It is the supreme mystery beyond thought. Let one’s mind and one’s subtle body rest upon that and not rest on anything else.— Maitri Upanishad
Source STRASBOURG, FRANCE, January 17, 2014 (Alsace): For the second consecutive year, the city of Strasbourg has published a calendar that identifies and explains festivals of seven major religions. For the first time, Hinduism, practiced by a community of 10,000 in the CUS (Urban Community of Strasbourg), made?its debut on the calendar with its symbols and colorful festivals. The result…
Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, February 9, 2014 (First Post): A Bangladeshi court today ordered the government to pay US$60,000 as compensation to Hindu families who were attacked for an alleged blasphemous post on a popular social networking site. Unidentified persons vandalized 29 homes, 10 shops and seven temples at Bonogram Bazar in Pabna district in November last year following allegations that…
Source In India I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything but possessed by nothing.— Appolonius of Tiana (2-97 ce), Greek philosopher and occultist. His work deeply influenced Western mysticism.
Source (HPI adds: This article was written by Gary Gnidovic who is a Christian and design director of Christianity Today magazine. It is a very Christian-oriented report and view of India, and quite revealing in its own way.) INDIA, February 5, 2014 (Christianity Today): In 1971, as an Indian medical student, M. A. Raju read Francis Schaeffer’s The God Who…
Source UNITED STATES, February 7, 2014 (National Geographic): The more we learn about yoga, the more we realize the benefits aren’t all in the minds of the 20 million or so devotees in the U.S. Yoga helps people to relax, making the heart rate go down, which is great for those with high blood pressure. The poses help increase flexibility…