Source AUSTRALIA, March 24, 2014(by Michaela Boland, The Australian): The National Gallery of Australia’s $5.1 million Shiva is one step closer to going home. The Indian government has made a formal request for the NGA to return the 900-year-old bronze figure of the Hindu deity, which has been on display in its first floor gallery since 2008. Indian police claim…
Source UNITED KINGDOM, March 5, 2014 (BBC):People of Indian origin make up of roughly two percent of Myanmar’s 55-million population, but the experiences of Tamil people – who comprise the largest group – have veered from one extreme to the other in the past 200 years. After independence in 1948, the introduction of land reforms, the imposition of the Burmese…
Source With love enshrined in the heart, one truly lives. Without it, the body is but bones encased in skin.— Tirukkural
Source SUVA, FIJI, March 23, 2014 (Fiji Times): Interest in participating in the first ever Fiji National Hindu Conference is growing, said Ashika Chandra of the World Hindu Council’s Fiji chapter. “People are making enquiries and registering their interest in taking part in an event which will not only recognize the contribution of the Indian people to Fiji but also…
Source NEW DELHI, March 11, 2014 (The Hindu): The Supreme Court has upheld a notification issued by the Rishikesh Municipal Board banning the sale of eggs within the town limits, holding that it was not an unreasonable restriction. A Bench of Justice Shivaraj V. Patil and Justice D. M. Dharmadhikari rejected an appeal by Om Prakash and other traders against…
Source The poverty of poverties is having plenty yet shunning guests. Such senselessness is only found in senseless fools.— Tirukkural
Source HOUSTON, TEXAS, March 20, 2014 (Indo American News): Voice of Sanatan Hinduism Radio program has now completed 20 years of broadcasting. Looking back to the past 20 years, the Houston Hindu Community started to build the foundations of many institutions and organizations to establish places of worship and teach Hindu Dharma. It also ventured into the media of radio.…
Source MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, US, March 21, 2014 (The Smithsonian Magazine, by S. Halpern and B. McKibben): If you want to understand how it feels to leave your country behind and start anew, there are a million questions you could ask a refugee: about jobs and housing and education. But if you ask those questions over dinner, they’re likely to…
Source The pweor of the hmuan mnid: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae…
Source OMAN, March 18, 2014 (Times Of Oman): The world’s first great civilizations appear to have collapsed because of an ancient episode of climate change – according to new research carried out jointly by scientists and archaeologists of a British and an Indian university. Their investigation demonstrates that the Bronze Age “megacities” of the Indus Valley region of Pakistan and…