Source PATHANAMTHITTA, KERALA, INDIA, August 18, 2013 (The Hindu): The Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala witnessed a heavy rush on Friday evening as hundreds of devotees from all over the State and neighboring Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh thronged the hillock to worship the Deity on the Malayalam New Year Day on Saturday. Head priest N. Damodaran Potti opened the…
Source In the four eternal Vedas; In the study and reading of scripts; In sacred ashes and in holy writs and muttering of prayers you will not find the Lord! Melt with the heart inside And proclaim the Truth. Then you will join the light life without servitude.— Sivavakkiyar, 10th-century Tamil devotional poet and mystic
Source DALLAS, TEXAS, August 9, 2013 (Dallas News): Frisco’s Asian Indian population is booming. Census numbers show that from 2000 to 2010, the Asian Indian population in Collin County more than tripled, growing from 9,673 to 33,502. The growth will soon be reflected in a new construction project on Independence Parkway in Frisco. After years of fundraising, the Karya Siddhi…
Source BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, August 14, 2013 (New York Times): Growing up, Guneeta Singh Bhalla heard a terrifying story from her grandmother. In August 1947, as British India was being partitioned into independent India and Pakistan, her grandmother fled Lahore, in what was soon to become Pakistan, for Amritsar, in what was soon to become India. All around her was carnage.…
Source TIRUPATI, INDIA, August 13, 2013 (Hindustan Times): For the first time in the last three decades, state-owned APSRTC buses on Tuesday did not operate its services on the hill routes leading to the Lord Venkateswara shrine following an indefinite strike by transport unions across the state. They were demanding reversal of the Center’s decision to carve out a new…
Source What is the secret of the true life? To remain still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly awake while in meditation.— Dada Sadhu Vaswani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM9aPy7H534 INDIA, August 15, 2013: An HPI reader has recommended the above documentary on the River Ganga. Reader reactions would be appreciated–email ar@hindu.org.
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 30, 2013 (News Bharati): In a recent move, Union Home Ministry has canceled FCRA registration of thousands of Non Government organisations (NGO) who were receiving huge foreign funds; similarly accounts of lots of NGOS are frozen and several NGOs are prohibited from receiving foreign funding. This is a huge havoc for thousands of Non Government…
Source A Cherokee elder sitting with his grandchildren told them, “In every life there is a terrible fight–a fight between two wolves. One is evil: he is fear, anger, envy, greed, arrogance, self-pity, resentment and deceit. The other is good: joy, serenity, humility, confidence, generosity, truth, gentleness, and compassion.” One child asked, “Grandfather, which wolf will win?” The elder looked…
DALLAS, TEXAS, August 11, 2013: Jeffrey Weiss of the Dallas Morning News has made a request of HPI readers: “You may have seen media attention given to a beef-ish product grown in a petri dish. For example: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130806-lab-grown-beef-burger-eat-meat-science/. My question is: How would this product be understood by Hindus? Is it beef? Is it even meat? What are the issues…