Source NEW YORK,USA, July 6, 2013 (Shaila Dawan,New York Times): As a racial classification, the term Caucasian has many flaws, dating as it does from a time when the study of race was based on skull measurements and travel diaries. It has long been entirely unmoored from its geographical reference point, the Caucasus region. Its equivalents from that era are…
Source BALI, INDONESIA, July 6, 2013 (Jakarta Post): Dozen of Indonesian Hindu Students Association (KMHDI) members protested against the provincial administration’s lack of attention to the fate of confiscated sacred objects currently in storage at the government-owned warehouse. The protest, held in front of the Bali Legislative Council building in Denpasar on Friday morning, called on the Bali government to…
Source Not to do what you feel like doing is freedom.— Swami Chinmayananda
Source BANGKOK, THAILAND, July 4,2013 (Bangkok, Post by Peerawat Jariyasombat): A brick shrine towers up among fragrances of incense and flower offerings. The fast rhythms of tabla playing and the multi-colored decorations on buildings and indeed all around make me think that I am somewhere in India. In the middle of nowhere amidst the rice paddies and the fruit orchards…
Source INDIA, July 5, 2013 (Business Ghana): A total number of 3,068 people who went missing in floods in India’s northern state Uttarakhand last month will be be presumed dead if not found by July 15, the state’s chief minister said Thursday. Vijay to the news channel Bahuguna NDTV that this would enable the government to start paying compensation to…
Source DAMAK, NEPAL, June 28, 2013 (NY Times by Vidhyapati Mishra): Before my family was expelled from Bhutan, in 1992, I lived with my parents and seven siblings in the south of the country. This region is the most fertile part of that tiny kingdom perched between Tibet and India, a tapestry of mountains, plains and alpine meadows. Our house…
Source Silence is the highest eloquence.— Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950), South Indian mystic
Source LONDON, ENGLAND, July 5, 2013 (The Daily Mail): Vegetarians are to be offered cheaper life insurance because, it is claimed, they are healthier and less likely to die early. The AFI insurance agency has devised the Vegetarian Term Life policy to reward non meat-eaters with lower premiums. The company claims that the wider industry has failed to catch up…
Source Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.— Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)
KAUAI, HAWAII, July 2, 2013 (HPI): Hinduism Today has been asked to locate contacts in the Kashmir Pundit community both in the US and India for the purposes of better understanding the community’s situation today, years after so many were expelled from the Kashmir Valley. If you can help with contacts, especially for pundits located in Delhi itself, kindly email…