Source VIJAYAWADA, INDIA, June 14, 2012 (The Hindu): Over 200 tiny tots participated in the mass aksharabhyasam organized atop Indrakeeladri by the Sri Durga Malleswara Swamyvarla Devasthanam here on Wednesday. Parents turned up in good numbers along with their children to perform aksharabhyasam (first letter writing), the formal initiation into the learning process (traditionally performed at the age of five).…
Source NAESTVED, DENMARK, May 5, 2012 (ringstednu.dk): From the outside it looks like an ordinary old school, but when you move inside the gymnasium of the former Vallensved School of Naestved, it’s buzzing with activities. The hall has been converted into a Hindu temple, where several hundred Tamils are gathered for Friday prayers, which for the Hindus is the most…
Source What is the instant? That is what we have to discover through a moment of concentration. What is the moment? We all know what the past is–so many people live in the past, over and over again, and they never catch up with the present. Other people live in the future–but of course when they do, they are really…
Source NAKIVUBO,UGANDA,June 03 (observer.ug) At Blue primary school, Nakivubo,everything is in a state of disrepair. Jonathan Mukinusu, the deputy head teacher here, agrees they face numerous challenges.The Swaminarayan community (Hindus), under the leadership of its senior priest, Swami Ghanshyamcharan, has pledged to construct two-classroom blocks worth US $2800. Many Indians have studied there since the early 1970s and the donation…
Source TROY, MICHIGAN, USA, June 16, 2012 (AP): It took seven years and $10 million to renovate and expand the Bharatiya Hindu Temple to accommodate the growing numbers of worshippers who have arrived in the Detroit area from India. The temple in Troy, a northern Detroit suburb, has been enlarged from 28,000 square feet to about 70,000 square feet, The…
Source STUTTGART, GERMANY, June 4, 2012: From the outside, the old factory building on Bad Cannstatt’s Lehmfeldstrasse is quite unimpressive. Once inside, however, it offers a different picture: the dilapidated concrete building holds within itself a magnificent temple. Hundreds of Tamils from Sri Lanka in colorful clothing crowd into the room decorated with garlands of flowers. The air is warm…
Source CHENNAI, INDIA, June 12, 2012 (Economic Times): The Madras High Court today suggested either scrapping issuing special passes to VVIPs and VIPs visiting temples in Tamil Nadu or framing clear guidelines for devotees as had been done in neighbouring states. “The Advocate General is directed to seek instructions as to why the government should not come out with clear…
Source LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND, June 2012 (World Radio Switzerland): The City of Lucerne has agreed to let Hindu residents perform burial rites on one bank of the Reuss River. An unofficial agreement had previously allowed Hindus to spread ashes into the water but now an environmental study has confirmed as many as 20 ceremonies can be performed a year without environmental…
Source A wicked person, though powerless himself, instigates others to injure people. A piece of stone, itself incapable of cutting, whets the edge of a sword. — Subhasita Ratnabhandagaram
Source JAMMU KASHMIR,SRINAGAR,INDIA Jun 13 (PTI) Jammu and Kashmir government has deployed 20 senior civil administration and police officers for the Amarnath yatra to ensure timely and smooth conduct of the annual pilgrimage,scheduled to begin from June 25. “As per the recommendations of a high-level committee, set up after Governor N N Vohra’s meeting with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, the…