Source PUNE, INDIA, April 28, 2013 (Times of India): Close to 40,000 manuscripts from the period 1600 to 1900 AD have been digitized in the city, while around 145,000 have been documented in the state, recent data from the National Mission for Manuscripts has revealed. With a budget of US$1.75 million this year, the mission also plans to start a…
Source OMAHA, NEBRASKA, APRIL 29, 2013 (press release): The two-day Sanatana Dharma Conference will be a historic gathering of dedicated devotees of the Sanatana Dharma religious tradition with the purpose of laying out the future of the Vedic spiritual tradition for the 21st century and beyond. This conference is designed to greatly further our understanding of the Vedic path, to…
Source COIMBATORE, TAMIL NADU, April 28, 2013 (News Track India): To overcome a chronic power shortage, a Ganesha Temple at Coimbatore has set up solar panels to generate its own power. A priest at the temple, Shivasri Vagesha, said they decided to use solar energy for sustaining the regular activities in the temple. “The electricity generated is useful for all…
Source VARANASI, INDIA, april 18, 2013 (Times Of India): Banks are in vogue. They always were and will be. Almost all of them transact in worldly currencies but some are exceptions. The Ram Ramapati Bank situated in Dashashwmedh area is one of those rare exceptions. Here the owner of the bank lends not money but paper, pen and ink that…
Source MUMBAI, April 27 2013 (DNA India): The Siddhivinayak Temple trust has decided to set up a state-of-the-art dialysis centre close to the Prabhadevi temple, where patients can have a dialysis done at just US$4.61 per cycle (compared to an average cost in the United States of $500/treatment). At present, patients have to shell out $22 to $28 for each…
Source Like a tortoise withdrawing five limbs into its shell, those who restrain the five senses in one life will find safe shelter for seven.— Tirukkural 126
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 TRINIDAD/TOBAGO, April 14, 2013 (Newsday by Vishnu Bisram): I write to pay tribute to Guyanese Pundit Reepu Daman Persaud who passed away on April 7 and was cremated last Thursday. He is well known throughout Trinidad for his expertise in Hinduism and for conducting yagnas in several parts of the island. He was one of the longest serving Members…
Source HOUSTON, TEXAS, April 25, 2013 (Indo American News): An organization that can speak for Hindus in the greater Houston area in one strong voice is emerging. The board of advisors of Hindus of Greater Houston at its first meeting held at Chinmaya Mission Houston recently laid the foundation for the umbrella organization that will be an authentic and credible…
Source SWITZERLAND, March 18, 2013 (Solothurner Zeitung): On Sunday, hundreds of Tamil Hindus from around the region gathered to inaugurate the new Sri Manonmani Ammbal Hindu temple in Trimbach. It is the largest of its kind in Switzerland. In front of the main shrine of Manonmani Ammbal a kind of pergola was built, which was decorated with garlands of flowers…