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Source If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?— Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), sixteenth president of the United States

Source KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, June 29, 2012: The International Muruga Bhakti Conference 2012 is being organized to learn and share facts about the various aspects of Murugan worship and philosophy. It will be held on 9, 10, 11 12 August, 2012 at the University of Malaya, jointly organized by Thirumurugan Thiruvakku Thirupeedam and Department of Indian Studies, University of Malaya,…

Source HARVEST, ALABAMA, June 24, 2012 (al.com): Ratha Yatra, the festival when the image of Lord Jagannath, along with his brother and sister Deities, are transported from their temple shrine to another building, demonstrates the best of Hinduism, says former Ambassador Pramathesh Rath. “This is the opportunity for all devotees, irrespective of religion or caste or race or age, to…

Source You seek peace? To attain peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the sages.— Swami Brahmananda (1863-1922), disciple of Sri Ramakrishna and first president of the Ramakrishna Mission

Source MADIKERI, KARNATAKA, INDIA, June 28, 2012 (Deccan Herald) Next time you visit Bhagamandala or Talacauvery temples (ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagamandala), make sure you are clad in traditional or decent attire. The members of the Talacauvery-Bhagandeeshwara Temple Management Committee along with local residents have decided to impose a dress code on tourists and devotees. It was decided that antics of tourists needed to…

Source LONDON, June 27, 2012 (Times of India): Citing stark examples from school curriculum, a prominent Islamabad-based scholar has said that extreme religious and anti-India views fed into children in schools reinforced the cycle of extremism that showed no signs of receding in Pakistan. Pervez Hoodbhoy, nuclear physicist and commentator on current issues, presented the examples at a seminar in…

Source UNITED STATES, June 28, 2012 (Business Week): The U.S. Copyright Office says that a sequence of yoga poses can’t be copyrighted. In a release published in the Federal Register on June 22, the Copyright Office found that “a selection, coordination, or arrangement of exercise movements, such as a compilation of yoga poses, may be precluded from registration as a…

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Source LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, June 25, 2012 (USC-this is a second report on the same topic): The USC School of Religion will establish the first chair of Hindu studies in the United States funded by the Indian-American community. The $3.24 million gift from the Dharma Civilization Foundation to the School of Religion, housed within the USC Dornsife College of Letters,…