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Source AUSTRALIA, March 10, 2014 (Chasing Aphrodite): Ron Radford, the embattled director of the National Gallery of Australia, sat down last week for his first media interview since the Subhash Kapoor scandal broke. Radford’s stumbling performance and reality-defying denials already have some leading experts questioning his ability to lead Australia’s premiere national museum. “The gallery’s council must surely question whether…

Source MADURAI, INDIA, March 29, 2014 (Times Of India): Amidst election duty, 3,000 police personnel in Dindigul will be deployed to provide security for the over one million devotees who are expected to the throng the Palani Dandhayudapani temple on the occasion of the Panguni Uthiram festival in mid-April. Panguni Uthiram is one of the important festivals of the temple…

Source PAKISTAN, March 29, 2014 (Tribune): A small temple belonging to the Hindu scheduled-caste community was desecrated on Friday morning. Three unidentified attackers entered the temple of the Hindu deity, Hanuman, in the SITE area of Latifabad at around 7 am. The men prayed for two minutes and then broke Hanuman’s statue before setting the temple on fire. This temple…

Source ONEHUNGA, NEW ZEALAND, February 14, 2014 (Indian Weekender): Thousands of people thronged Onehunga, Auckland, over four days last week as the Shirdi Saibaba Mandir opened its doors to the public. Twelve years, more than $4.5 million, and countless hours of toil by members of the Shirdi Saibaba Sansthan of New Zealand came to fruition at 12-18 Princess St on…

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…

Source We who have come from the East here have been told day after day in a patronizing way that we ought to accept Christianity because Christian nations are the most prosperous. We look about us and see England as the most prosperous nation in the world, with her foot on the neck of 250 million Asiatics. We look back…

Source March 30, 2014 (Vijayvaani by J. Venkatasubramanian): Meditation or Dhyanam has become a sure catch phrase in today’s India. Today’s Hindu media is abuzz with the idea of meditation as a must for the modern person. Corporate gurus are advocating meditation to all their followers. Given this scenario, is there truth in the statement that meditation or dhyanam is…

Source DENPASAR, BALI, March 29, 2014 (The Jakarta Post): Balinese Hindus marched to the beaches, major rivers, lakes and holy springs on Friday to perform Melasti, a ritual to cleanse temple paraphernalia and to recharge the supernatural power of the temple’s sacred objects, in preparation for Nyepi, the Hindu Day of Silence, which will falls on March 31. Dressed in…

Source PAKISTAN, March 29, 2014 (Indian Express): A Hindu temple has been desecrated and set on fire by unidentified persons in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, two weeks ahead of an annual fair at the holy site. The caretaker of the temple of Hindu deity Hanuman, in Latifabad town told police that three men came on Friday to offer prayers. “But…

Source Today is in your hands. Tomorrow the chance may never come.— Swami Sivananda (1887-1963), founder of Divine Life Society