Source VALENCIA, SPAIN, March 19, 2013 (elmundo.es, translated from the original Spanish): Controversy erupted over a tableau created for the annual Las Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain, when two Hindu groups complained to the mayor that their cultural and religious feelings were being being insulted. Ninots, huge wood and cardboard “puppets,” depicting Saraswati, Ganesha and Lord Shiva Nataraja had been…
Source At this time in the Kali Yuga, ignorance is equally distributed worldwide, and wisdom has become an endangered species.— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
Source MALAYSIA, March 18, 2013 (Khabar Southasia): Planning the first Hindu temple in Putrajaya has required patience, perseverance and faith on the part of Kanagaraja Raman, president of the Federal Territories Maha Mariamman Devasthanam Devotees Association. Submission plans alone cost the association RM 180,000 ($58,000). According to Kanagaraja, they were rejected three times due to their initial failure to meet…
Source BANGLADESH, March 20, 2013 (The Daily Star): Yet again religious fanatics have attacked temples, houses and shops of Hindus in four districts. Since Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee was handed down a death sentence in a war crimes case on February 28, more than 26 temples, 175 houses and dozens of shops of the minorities across the country have…
Source Hinduism does not see sins, but only mistakes.— Mother Sarada Devi, as quoted by Swami Gautamananda
Source PATHANAMTHITTA, INDIA, March 17, 2013 (The Hindu): A two-day intensive cleaning drive launched by the Amala Bharatam volunteers of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math at Sabarimala came to a close on Sunday afternoon. Math sources said 1,529 Amala Bharatam volunteers were deployed for the cleaning program at the Sannidhanam, while 1,219 volunteers, a majority of them women, took part in…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 15, 2013 (Greater Kashmir): Government today ruled out granting refugee status to Pakistani Hindu immigrants who have crossed over to India to escape persecution there. “At the moment, we cannot grant them refugee status,” Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran said replying to a discussion on a private members’ resolution in the Lok Sabha.…
Source Anger is nothing but an attachment for an object, when expressed towards an obstacle between ourselves and the object of our attachment.— Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993), founder of Chinmaya Mission
Source BANGLADESH, March 16,2 013 (bdnews24): Miscreants vandalized a Saraswati statue at a temple beside the residence of ruling-party Member of Parliament (MP) Mohammad Atiur Rahman Atique in Sherpur city’s Madhabpur. The Madhabpur Puja Temple committee informed the police about the incident that took place on Friday night. Hindus have been offering prayers at this temple for the past 77…
Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, March 15, 2013 (New York Times, by Amy Karafin): My two-week trip here last June was my second visit to the Jaffna Peninsula, a 400-square-mile expanse of Technicolor temples and arid, surreally beautiful landscapes in northern Sri Lanka that have only recently opened to tourists after a 26-year civil war. I had traveled there in…