Source PETALING JAYA, MALAYSIA, February 25, 2013 (The Star): Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) has obtained a magistrate court order to demolish Sivan Temple in Bukit Gasing after a council report recommended it to be torn down as it posed an imminent danger to people’s lives and properties in the surrounding area. Petaling Jaya mayor Datin Paduka Alinah Ahmad said…
Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, March 7, 2013 (The Hindu): Amnesty International has made an urgent appeal to the Bangladesh government to provide its minority better protection. “The Hindu community in Bangladesh is at extreme risk, in particular at such a tense time in the country. It is shocking that they appear to be targeted simply for their religion. The authorities must…
Source KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, February 7, 2013 (Free Malaysia Today): Hindu temples nationwide are facing a shortage of priests. This is because the Immigration Department is only granting visas for only one or two priests from India to work at a temple. The Petaling Estate Sree Maha Mariamman Temple board of trustees chairman A. Vasudevan Nair said it was difficult…
Source There is no true path that leads away from religion.— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
Source MADURAI, INDIA, March 2, 2013 (The Hindu): With Meenakshi Amman Temple coming under a security blanket, devotees as well as residents in the vicinity are uneasy over the heightened police presence. “The temple has been taken over by the police for all practical purposes and under the guise of security the police are troubling the common man,” devotees complain.…
Source ALLAHABAD, INDIA, March 1,2013 (Washington Post): — Onno Ruhl, head of the World Bank in India, calls it “an incredible logistical operation.” Harvard researchers describe it as “a pop-up megacity”. On the sandbanks of the Ganges River at Allahabad, bureaucrats and workers from Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state and one of its poorest, took less than three months…
Source The poverty of poverties is having plenty yet shunning guests. Such senselessness is only found in senseless fools.— Tirukkural
Source INDIA, March 6, 2013 (HPI): At source above is a three-minute video of a dance performance by two children, brother and sister, age 11 and 7 on the India’s Got Talent show. The highly professional performance melds classical Indian dance with modern ballet moves such as lifts. Definitely worth watching.
Source LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, March 6, 2013 (press release): Fifty American high school teachers will receive an in-depth summer education in nonviolence, thanks to a special program facilitated by the Center for Jain Studies at Claremont Lincoln University. From July 15 through August 7, the teachers will study in Delhi, Aligarh and Jaipur to gain a multifaceted understanding of ahimsa,…
Source TAMIL NADU, INDIA, March 4, 2013 (The Hindu): Grama Kovil Poojarigal Peravai and the Tamil Nadu unit of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) have urged the State government to sanction monthly remuneration for priests of village temples. The two organisations have urged the State government to end the practice of issuing tickets for special darshan in temples that were…