Source OXON HILL, MARYLAND, May 31, 2012 (NBC): Snigdha Nandipati heard a few words she didn’t know during the National Spelling Bee, but never when she stepped to the microphone. Calm and collected throughout, the 14-year-old from San Diego spelled “guetapens,” a French-derived word that means ambush, snare or trap, to win the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday…
Source TIRUPATI, ANDRA PRADESH, INDAI, May 31, 2012 (Wall Street Journal): Patheti Srinivasarao deals with 900 kilograms of human hair a day. He is in charge of the collection, categorization and sale of hair shaved from the heads of pilgrims at Sri Venkateswara Temple in Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh. At the start of June, Mr. Srinivasarao, who is an engineer by…
Source NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND, May 30, 2012 (BBC): Plans for a #10m development including a Hindu temple in Northampton have been approved by borough councillors. The site off Lings way would include sports and leisure facilities, sheltered housing and the temple for Hindhu religious practices. The plans were initially submitted in 2010 and met opposition from residents over increases in traffic…
Source KASHMIR, INDIA, May 29, 2012 (thehindu.com): Thousands of devotees on Tuesday thronged the temple of Ragnya Devi, a revered Goddess of Kashmiri Pandits, to celebrate the annual festival of Kheer Bhawani. Nestled in the shade of mammoth Chinar trees in this village in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, the temple witnessed massive crowds of devotees, most of them Kashmiri Pandits,…
Source Do not resist change. Accept change as one of the prerequisites in your life to spiritual illumination. A positive mental attitude overlooks many things that happen and sees the overall picture of what is progressing in your life. — Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
Source LANHAM, MARYLAND, April 21, 2012 (press release, revised to include new website address at source above): Sri Siva Vishnu Temple (SSVT) located in Lanham, MD hosted the annual meeting of the Council of Hindu Temples of North America (CHTNA) on Saturday April 21st 2012. The CHTNA, a registered 501(c)(3), non-profit Hindu organization, was established in 1984 and incorporated in…
Source DELAWARE, USA, May 28, 2012 (delawareonline.com): Thousands of devotees attended kumbhabhishekam of the Hindu Temple of Delaware’s new rajagopuram. The event is captured on a slide show at “source” above.
Source UNITED STATES, April 6, 2012 (NY Times by Shivani Vora): When I got married almost 10 years ago, it was my parents and I who orchestrated the week-long affair, a “medium-sized” Indian affair spread over various venues in Manhattan and New Jersey, involving more than 450 guests from as a far away as Hong Kong, New Delhi and Germany.…
VARANASI, INDIA, May 31, 2012 (newstrackindia.com): Thousands of Hindu devotees converged on the banks of River Ganga in Varanasi on Thursday to celebrate the Ganga Dussehra festival which marks the day when the Goddess Ganga descended on earth through the locks of Lord Shiva. Mahant Brijmohan Das, a priest, said: “Today, is the festive occasion of Ganga Dussehra. Today only,…
Source UNITED KINGDOM, May 29, 2012 (Your Local Guardian): Bailiffs executed a dawn raid on a Hindu temple, evicting priests and seizing its sacred contents in a move which has outraged the Hindu community. Backed up by the police, they moved in on the Sivayogam temple in Hebdon Road, Tooting, at 5 am last Tuesday, May 22, following a protracted…