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…
Source UNITED KINGDOM, May 17, 2012 (BBC): Bristol’s Hindu community may be able to scatter the ashes of loved ones in the River Avon in future rather than travelling to India’s River Ganges. The city’s new Lord Mayor Peter Main said providing a consecrated site was one of his first priorities. The Environment Agency and Bristol City council are trying…
Source INDIA, May 2012 (educationworldonline): A silent revolution is transforming the contours, especially the cultural context of Indian education, investing it with the rich and hitherto largely ignored spiritual wisdom and values of ancient India. Across the country education institutions promoted by charitable trusts headed by Hindu seers and saints are mushrooming, drawing students from all sections of society. Most…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 14, 2012 (ndtv.com): This year pilgrims undertaking the annual yatra to Amarnath shrine can procure a short-term “yatra card,” a pre-paid SIM which will have a validity of seven days after being issued and there will be no provision of recharge after that. The Union Home Ministry has given in-principle approval for having such a…
Source SRINAGAR, INDIA, May 15, 2012 (ibnlive.in): Nearly 140,000 pilgrims have registered for this year’s Amarnath yatra to the holy cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas. “Till yesterday, 137,096 pilgrims had registered themselves for this year’s Yatra. Over 70,000 have preferred the traditional Pahalgam route while 66,911 have opted for the shorter Baltal route,” Chief Executive Officer Shri Amarnath Shrine…
Source God Siva is Immanent Love and Transcendent Reality.— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today