Source INDIA, January 7, 2012 (gulfnews): A 400-year-old Hindu temple in Himachal Pradesh that had been partly damaged more than a century ago in a devastating earthquake has been reconstructed in its original style and will be open to the public this month. The foundation of the Bharari Devi temple, located in Sarah village near Dharamsala town in Kangra district,…
Source O Mother! Let all my speech be your prayer; let all my crafts and technology be your worship and be the mystic gestures of my hand, adorning you. May all my movements become your devotional circumambulations. May everything I eat or drink be oblations to you. Let my lying down in rest and sleep be prostrations to you. Mother!…
Source NEW YORK, January 5, 2011 (NY Times): Glenn Black is, in many ways, a classic yogi: he studied in Pune, India, at the institute founded by the legendary B. K. S. Iyengar, and spent years in solitude and meditation. He now lives in Rhinebeck, N.Y. And Black, I’d been told, was the person to speak with if you wanted…
Source The Vegetarian Society, off Dunham Road, Altrincham, Trafford attracts visitors from all over the country UK, January 4, 2011 (messengernewspapers): A Victorian mansion just off leafy Dunham Road in Altrincham is home to an organisation whose appeal is so far and wide, it gets more hits on its website from overseas than it does at home. It is the…
Source INDIA, December 16, 2011 (Press Release): The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) was founded in the December 1861 as a result of a series of antiquarian, artistic and architectural investigations since 1784, when the Asiatic Society was established under Sir William Jones. The necessity of an institution to survey and document, interpret and publish the data pertaining to India’s…
Source Amma was making dosai pancakes for breakfast for her two sons, Vignesh, age seven, and Chandran, age five. The boys got into a terrific argument over who was going to get the first dosai. They grew loud and rowdy. Amma saw this as a teaching opportunity, so she quieted the boys and said. “Now boys, do you know what…
www.hafsite.org WASHINGTON, DC, USA, November 12, 2011 (HAF): The Hindu American Foundation is now accepting applications for its Hindu American Congressional Internship, a unique opportunity for selected applicants to spend eight weeks interning on Capitol Hill between late May and mid-July 2012. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents, at least 18 years old, and enrolled in good standing…
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 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…