Source VRINDAVAN, INDIA, October 3,2012 (Deccan Herald): Traditionally, Vedic hymns are chanted and religious rites performed in honor of one’s ancestors. There is an elaborate feast that marks pitra-paksh. Family and friends are invited, and pandits too are fed on the occasion. Many of those who observe the rituals believe that observing pitra-paksh in honor of one’s forebears ensures peace…
Source PAKISTAN, October 6, 2012 (Pakistan Observer): [HPI Note: This is an editorial]: It was shocking to see that a group of Muslims ransacked a Hindu temple in Karachi during protests in reaction to a blasphemous film in the United States. The group broke religious statues, tore up a copy of the religious book, took away the decorative ornaments and…
Source Consistency is the key to the conquest of karma.— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 3, 2012 (Hindustan Times): The Supreme Court on Monday gave the Jammu and Kashmir government two weeks’ time to decide what measures it will adopt to make the annual Amarnath Yatra safe. A bench of justice BS Chauhan and justice Swatanter Kumar asked the state government to take a decision on the various recommendations made…
Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, October 4, 2012 (Associated Press): [HPI Note: This is an update on the same attack which appeared in yesterday’s HPI, raising the number of temples torched to 10 from 2–other reports are as high as 24.] Amnesty International has urged Bangladesh to take action against those who attacked Buddhist temples and homes over a picture of a…
Source The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and…
Source NEW YORK, USA, October 2, 2012 (by Mark Bittman, food critic at the New York Times): A widely publicized study recently done at Stanford misleadingly suggested that there is no “strong evidence that organic foods are significantly more nutritious than conventional foods.” In fact, the Stanford study — actually a meta-study, an analysis of more than 200 existing studies…
Source BHOPAL, INDIA, September 21, 2012 (InfoLanka): Under the historic initiative to promote world peace and harmony of Madhya Pradesh government, the foundation stone of a Buddhist and Indic Studies University was laid at Sanchi today. The foundation laying ceremony of the first-ever university for studies in Buddhism and Indian knowledge was held in the presence of Sri Lankan President…
Source CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, September 30, 2012 (UPI): Mobs of Muslims in Bangladesh attacked and damaged two Hindu and two Buddhist temples Saturday night into Sunday, police said. Extra manpower was called in to break up the mob of several hundred people in and around the city of Chittagong. The rampage began Saturday when Muslims said they had found a Buddhist…
Source In this brief video, Julia Roberts affirms that Hinduism has been part of her life for a very long time; she did not suddenly decide she was a Hindu after making a recent film.