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 Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with wool to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.— Sri Ramana Maharishi (1879-1950), South Indian mystic
Press Release LANHAM, MARYLAND, April 21, 2012 (press release): 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 the State of New York in 1986. It…
Source INDIA, May 16, 2012 (azcentral.com): Hindu devotees and other well-wishers will have a rare opportunity to witness Srinivasa Kalyanam, “The Marriage of Srinivasa,” at the Sri Venkata Krishna Kshetra Temple in Tempe. Visiting priests from the Tirupathi temple will perform the ceremony there from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday. The temple is one of 10 in the country to…
Source PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, May 27, 2012 (allafrica.com): President Jacob Zuma has praised South African Hindus for their role in the struggle to free South Africa. “Many South Africans of Indian origin and specifically Hindus, played a prominent part in our struggle for freedom and are still playing a meaningful role in the social, economic and political reconstruction of this…
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…
Source Hinduism is the only ancient religious tradition on the Earth which talks about the right time-scale. In the West, people have the sense that what is natural is for the universe to be a few thousand years old, and that billions are numbers no one can understand. The Hindu concept is very clear. Here is a great world culture…
Source ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN, May 20, 2012 (Hindustan Times): Unidentified men on Sunday vandalized a historic Hindu temple in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan that was reopened on the orders of a court last year, police officials and local residents said. The attackers burnt pictures and damaged a Shivling inside Gorakhnath Temple and took away statues from the shrine located within…
Source MADURAI, INDIA, May 13, 2012 (The Hindu): There is nothing wrong in treating musicians who had completed a certificate or degree course in a Government Music College on a par with those who had received informal training from ace performers when it comes to appointment in Temples managed by the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department, the Madras High…