Source BALI, December 17, 2013 (Jakarta Post): Computer engineering students introduced various unique, fun games themed on Balinese traditions during the Denpasar Technology, Information and Communication (DTIK) Festival held from Dec. 12 to 15. In the city’s first IT festival, held in Taman Kota, they exhibited their unique creations to teach gamers about local culture, including how to make canang…
Source THRISSUR, KERALA, December 21, 2013 (The Hindu): A museum that will display the evolution of Ayurveda will be opened soon at Thaikkattussery, near here. On December 27, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President, will inaugurate the museum. It will showcase the rich traditions of Ayurveda, its evolution through millennia and the contribution of Ayurveda acharyas. “A library of ancient scriptures,…
Source BALI, December 18, 2013 (by Desy Nurhyati, the Jakarta Post): India has become an emerging tourism market for Bali as the number of Indian visitors has shown continuous increase over the last several years. The latest data from the Bali office of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) showed that the number of Indian tourists to Bali increased by 51.1…
Source Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.— Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), Founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
Religious News Service LEWISTON, MAINE, December 21, 2013 (by G. Jeffrey Macdonald, RNS): [HPI Note: The Christian Seventh-Day Adventists advocate a vegetarian diet.] On a main drag dotted with fast food joints, a new Christian church-run restaurant is breaking the mold: It offers vegan fare as a healthy alternative in a low-income neighborhood. But for Seventh-day Adventists, who opened The…
Source AHMEDABAD, INDIA, November 18, 2013 (Times Of India): Some sing for fame, some for pleasure. But Namrata Shodhan sings to heal — she has devoted her singing to the cause of helping needy patients of renal failure get life-saving dialysis. In the past five years, the 50-year-old’s music has helped raise around US$81,000 for hospitals for dialysis. In the…
Source For seven lives in seven bodies the grateful will remember friends who relieved their anguish and affliction. Saint Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural, verse 107
Source JAMMU, INDIA, December 14, 2013 (Business Standard): As a result of the directions issued by Chairman of Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board N. N. Vohra, Shri Mata Vaishnodevi Shrine Board (SMVDB) has planted over 550,000 saplings, including forest, horticulture, floriculture, medicinal and ornamental species of plants during the last 4 years, a spokesman of SMVD said. The initiative is…
Source KARACHI, PAKISTAN, December 19, 2013 (Outlook India): A large number of Pakistani Hindus today joined a protest outside the Press Club here over the demolition of an 80-year-old temple in the city’s Soldier Bazar area. The Krishna or Rama Peer Mandir at Dholi Khata in Soldier Bazar has become a bone of contention between the minority Hindu community and…
Source The sages, being filled with universal love for all beings, did not want to keep their enlightenment to themselves. They declared to all: “O mortals, striving and struggling upon this Earth plane, weeping, wailing, buffeted by the vicissitudes of life: we have come upon a great discovery. There is something beyond these appearances, these vanishing names and forms that…