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 The delicate anicham flower withers when merely smelled, but an unwelcome look is enough to wither a guest’s heart.— Tirukkural
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 NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 14, 2012: India has been taken by surprise by the recent development of a large number of Pakistani Hindus declaring their wish to stay on its soil after crossing over and will look into the issue. Government sources said today that Hindus from Pakistan who are visiting India for pilgrimage were given visas like any…
Source Eternal, pure, groundless, death-and-birth free, pervasive, ever immaculate, distant, near, enveloping effulgence of void, the support of all, the fullness of bliss, the consciousness-form beyond thought and speech, That which thus stood, the expanse vast that generates bliss, let us contemplate.— Tayumanavar (1706-1744), South Indian devotional poet
Source CHENNAI, INDIA, August 12, 2012 (deccanchronicle.com): It is a dream come true after half-a-century for the devotees and locals of Korattur (just outside Chennai). The ancient Seyathamman temple, which has been managing without a chariot, since 1961, has finally got a new wooden chariot built at a cost of US$108,400, thanks to the generous contribution of the Ambattur legislator.…