Source KHADODA, INDIA, December 29, 2011: Every five days or so, in a marriage of low and high tech, field hands with long-handled dust mops wipe down each of the 36,000 solar panels at a 63-acre installation operated by Azure Power. The site is one of the biggest examples of India’s ambitious plan to use solar energy to help modernize…
Source TRINIDAD/TOBAGO, January 1, 2012 (guardian.com.tt): UN Women in the Caribbean recently funded a three-phase program aimed at promoting the role of faith-based organisations in “increasing awareness to change attitudes and influence behavior among people from all walks of life, as essential to preventing and ending violence against women.” The collaboration established a partnership between UN Women and the Hindu…
Source I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There’s a knob called brightness, but it doesn’t work.— Swami Anubhavananda, humorous author, lecturer
Source UNITED STATES, December 30, 2011 (NY Times): There is a shortage of organic milk across the country, and it has become so bad in areas like the Southeast that Publix stores from Florida to Tennessee have put up signs in dairy cases anticipating the shopper’s frustrated refrain: “Where’s my organic milk?” The answer is that there is not enough…
Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 2, 2012 (The Himalayan Times): Bells and valuables were stolen from several temples in Bhotebahal of Kathmandu on Sunday night. Police said four bells were stolen from the Ganesh temple; three from Bhagawati temple and one from Mahadev temple along with four Diyos and Jalahari. The unidentified thieves also stole one bell from Maheshwor temple and…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, December, 2011: The 15th World Sanskrit Conference, organized by Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi in association with the International Association of Sanskrit Studies, will be inaugurated by Honorable Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on January 5, 2012 at 10 a.m. Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan will release the catalogue of approximately…
Source When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are halfway there.— Japanese Proverb
Source NEW YORK, USA, December 29, 2011 (By Mark Bittman, food critic for the NY Times): Among your other resolutions — do more good? make more money? — you’ve probably made the annual pledge to eat better, although this concept may be more often reduced simply to “lose some weight.” The weight-loss obsession is both a national need and a…
Source UNITED STATES, December 2011: Yoga in America is now a six billion dollar industry. It is a highly influential practice that has captured the attention of millions, and continues to do so at an insurmountable rate. It is estimated that 15 to 20 million Americans practice yoga on a regular basis as it has become a celebrated form of…
Source INDIA, December 29, 2011 (The Hindu): The vibrant energy of the “Mad and Divine” fills the air. Words, songs, and dances of India’s beloved female saint-poets transformed Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan on December 23, 24, and 25, at an event inspired by Dr. Anita Ratnam. “My purpose in ‘Mad and Divine’ was to bring these women from the past and…