Source JALANDHAR, INDIA, August 17, 2012 (Times of India): Subway, the sandwich giant and world’s biggest restaurant chain with 37,000 outlets across the globe, is now ready to roll out its first ever all-vegetarian outlet after a private state university in Jalandhar convinced the U.S.-based footlong franchisor on the benefits of vegetarianism. Jalandhar-based Lovely Professional University, run by a strict…
Religion News Service UNITED STATES, August 2012 (Religion News Service): Religiosity is on the decline in the U.S. and atheism is on the rise, according to a new worldwide poll. The poll, called “The Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism,” found that the number of Americans who say they are “religious” dropped from 73 percent in 2005 (the last time…
Source USA, August 18, 2012 (YouTube): In an intriguing program about Near Death Experiences. Dr Jeffery Long from Louisiana, founder of the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, provides evidence he considers proof of an afterlife by sharing remarkable commonalities between NDE’s. He discusses that blind people experiencing visual perceptions during NDE’s and children having similar experiences to adults points to…
Source MUMBAI, INDIA, August 6, 2012 (Times of India): It’s 3.30 am on Dharavi’s 90 Feet Road. The street food stalls are ready to down shutters after Sehri, the last meal Muslims eat before the break of fajr or dawn during the month of Ramzan. But for its 1,000-odd idli makers, it’s time to move. The alleys that crisscross this…
Source TRINIDAD/TOBAGO, July 30, 2012 (newsday.co.tt): The Minister of Finance and Economy Larry Howai had high praise for the executive committee of the Freeport-based Lakshmi Narayan Temple. In addressing specially invited guests at the opening of a vegetarian restaurant attached to the temple, last Saturday evening, Howai said it was good to see the Hindu temple has been developing ways…
Source CHENNAI, INDIA, August 16,2012 (Murali Krishnan, ABC) : A shortage of Hindu priests in India has seen members of the religious caste start to benefit in very material ways. And many who once travelled abroad to service the congregations of the Indian diaspora are now deciding it’s much more worthwhile to stay at home. This has become very apparent…
Source The delicate anicham flower withers when merely smelled, but an unwelcome look is enough to wither a guest’s heart.— Tirukkural
Source Your actions express your priorities.— Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Source Guyana, November 3, 2011 (Guyana Times International–an old report): President Bharrat Jagdeo presented the Arrow of Achievement (AA) award to Spiritual Head of the Guyana and America Sevashram Sangha, Swami Vidyanandaji Maharaj, at a special ceremony held in Queens, New York on November 2. An award ceremony befitting that of a Swami whose exemplary life, religious and spiritual contributions…
Source HAMM, GERMANY, August 14, 2012 (YouTube): An informative and entertaining five-minute report in English (click “source”) by Deutsch Welle TV on the very popular Amman Temple built by the Sri Lankan Community eight years ago.