Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 9, 2013 (First Post): “Kashmiri Pandits – A Vintage Album,” an exhibition curated by author and critic Manju Kak, showcases rare photographs and prints that depict Kashmiri Pandits in their beautiful homeland until about the time India gained independence in 1947. “Kashmiri Pandits were always lured by the pen. Many of them held important positions…
Source KASHMIR/JAMMU, August 9, 2013 (The Hindu): Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew and called out the Army as two persons died and about 80 others sustained injuries in the worst communal riots to shake Jammu and Kashmir at Kishtwar on Friday. Official sources said people from the peripheral villages of Bandirna, Hullar and Kuleed were heading for the spacious Chowgan…
Source Years ago, I used to walk for miles to meet my Guru. The distance appeared no longer than a few furlongs.— Dada J.P. Vaswani
Source GERMANY, August 9, 2013 (Topagrar by Steffi Leuchten): The Leuchten family dairy farm and horse stables in Meerbusch lent a cow for the blessing of the site of the largest Hindu temple in Europe in mid-July. The US$2 million temple is to be privately funded by donations. The Hindus wanted a cow to come and bless the building site.…
Source NORWAY, August 9, 2013 (The Foreigner): As an alternative religion, Hinduism was first brought to Norway as early as 1914 by a guru, Swami Sri Ananda Acharya (1881-1945). He settled in Alvdal in Osterdalen in Hedmark County and lived there until his death in 1945. There’s a bust of him in the Alvdal Community Centre. There still are Hindus…
Source Before I came on this earth, I was the same. As a little girl, I was the same. I grew into womanhood, but still I was the same. And, even now, I am the same. Though the dance of creation will ever change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.— Sri Anandamayi Ma, (1896-1982),…
Source RUSSIA, August 9, 2013 (Indrus): Yoga was enjoyed by quite a large number of people in Imperial Russia, and this laid the roots for its absorption into Soviet culture. From the end of the 19th Century and right up until the 1920s, when the USSR was formed, Indian philosophy and yoga were popular amongst the artistic and intellectual communities.…
Source In Sanatana Dharma, there is no single life, no single judgment, or eternal punishment. There is more than one life and, of course, there is no single judgment. In fact, there is no judgment at all as such, for the idea is to help and not to judge and condemn. The inner dynamics of incarnation is not reward or…
Source VIRGINIA, U.S., August 5, 2013 (Roanoke): Children danced through the streets of Salem on Sunday morning as the Hindu community celebrated the installation of a new mandir, or Hindu temple. It will be the second such temple in the Roanoke Valley, but the first of the BAPS denomination, in which devotees follow the teachings of Bhagwan Swaminarayan. Religious leaders…
newindianexpress.com/nation/Uttarakhand-government-plans-to-record-Kedarnath-pilgrims-fingerprints/2013/08/08/article1723599.ece?service=print INDIA, August 8, 2013 (New Indian Express): In the wake of the recent natural disaster [in which thousands died], the Uttarakhand Government has decided to record the fingerprints of pilgrims to the Char Dham (pilgrimage places) in the state. Talking to Express on the sidelines of Tourism Fest meeting, State’s Additional Secretary (Tourism) Sachin Kurve said the state government…