Source PUNE, INDIA, July 29, 2013 (Times of India): A city-based social enterprise that produces eco-friendly figures of Ganesh Deities is wrapping up its first batch for shipping overseas. The Deities are made of papier-mache. Starting out with a mere 60 clay Deities, the enterprise has now grown to 3,500 Deities this year. “For years, we received requests from devotees…
Source If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.— Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886)
Source UNITED STATES, May 11, 2009 (Gori Girl): Want to settle the debate on how much interracial marriage there is in the US? I know I’m tired of hearing the occasional uninformed comment on how South Asians just don’t marry people outside their ethnicity, and isn’t it downright odd that my supposedly proud-of-his-Indian-heritage husband would do so? Well, the statistics…
Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, August 1,2013 (Malay Mail Oline): The UN’s cultural body has voiced alarm at the building of a giant crematorium within a fabled temple complex in Nepal, worried it will become an eyesore at one of the world’s holiest Hindu sites. Pashupatinath, a temple complex which sprawls over a 2.6 square-kilometer area near Kathmandu on the banks of…
Source If you believe everything you read, you had better not read.— Japanese Proverb
KAUAI, HAWAII, August 1, 2013: Is there an issue with a Hindu angle you’d like to see investigated? Hindu organization profiled? Influential Hindu leader interviewed? Inspiring story to reveal about ordinary Hindus? A part of our great Hindu heritage to explore? Let us know at Hinduism Today and we may add the suggestion to our 2014 roster of stories. Contact…
Source KANNUR, KERALA, INDIA, July 29, 2013 (The Hindu): Even as crores of rupees is being set aside for renovation of temples, many temples in Malabar (northern Kerala State) are facing the threat of closure thanks to the non-availability of employees. Many temple employees are shying away from their conventional profession for want of adequate remuneration and delay in payments.…
Source KOZHIKODE, INDIA, July 29, 2013 (The Hindu): Temples under the Malabar Devaswom Board and various other private trusts in north Kerala will benefit from a total government aid of US$1.3 million to undertake renovation. The distribution of funds, through the offices of five Devaswom Assistant Commissioners, which was formally inaugurated by M.K. Raghavan, MP, here on Sunday, will be…
Source INDONESIA, July 25, 2013 (Indonesia Travel): After a hiatus of 16 years, work on the colossal Garuda Wisnu Kencana statue on Bali will finally resume and will take three years to complete, said I Nyoman Nuarta, Indonesia’s maestro sculptor and creator of Bali’s iconic statue. Having been postponed since 1997, this magnificent monument is projected to become an exceptional…
Source There is nothing amazing in the world. Your ignorance shows when you find it so. It all happened long, long ago. What can be amazing? I am you and you are me. I am eternal, birthless, deathless, changeless, secondless.— Satguru Yogaswami, (1862-1964) Sri Lankan mystic