Source [HPI note: This is from a proselytizing organization which calls Hindu India “Satan’s Kingdom”. Here is their now strategy.] INDIA, August 31, 2011 (Mission News Network): A Christian program called Mission India , based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has found a way to connect families in the U.S. with families in India without ever having to board a plane.…
Source BANGALORE, INDIA, September 12, 2011 (India Times): When a Canadian frozen foods company test markets three-minute microwaveable idlis in India, you sit up and take notice. The $6.5-billion McCain Foods, which claims to make one of every three french fries in the world, has not limited itself to hash browns and potato wedges. Its Indian arm is adapting to…
Source KARACHI, PAKISTAN, September 5, 2011 (Pakistan Today): The recent catastrophic monsoon has postponed Hindu saint Rama Pir’s annual mela – the biggest gathering of Dalit Hindus in Pakistan – besides destroying standing crops, houses, bridges, schools and healthcare facilities; killing people, livestock and wildlife; and damaging heritage sites and government buildings. Months ago, a large number of lower caste…
Source You may turn your bones to fuel, your flesh to meat, letting them roast and sizzle in the gold-red blaze of severe austerities. But unless your heart melts in love’s sweet ecstacy, you never can possess my Lord Siva, my treasure-trove. — Tirumantiram Verse 272
Source August 27, 2011 (Hindu American Foundation via the Huffington Post): HPI continues the series of three first place winners of the Hindu American Foundation’s essay contest. The theme was “Every day, my Hindu-ness makes me a better American because… ” EssenceBy Sohini SircarMany American Hindus view their lives as having two poles. They display their Hindu side at home…
Source DENTON, TEXAS, USA, August 30, 2011 (Reuters): The University of North Texas in Denton has opened an all-vegan full-service campus cafeteria that may be the first in the nation and is proving immensely popular. Lines snake out the door. University officials are finding many of the students who eat there are not vegans but simply want to eat healthy…
Source CHETTIKULANGARA, KERALA, INDIA, August 21, 2011 (livemint.com): Every month, officials of Dhanalaxmi Bank collect hundreds of thousands of coins from the hundis (donation box) of 2,100 temples from across the state and exchange the coins for paper currency with vendors–shopkeepers, retail malls, local bus companies and government clients. The currency is then deposited into the temple’s account. Dhanalaxmi Bank…
Source BERLIN, GERMANY, August 30, 2011 (thehindu.com): Before long–if not already–a baby will be born who will take the global population above 7 billion for the first time. No one is sure; no statistician would be prepared to say exactly when this event takes place. The rate of population growth has soared over the course of recorded history. When Jesus…
Source THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, September 06, 2011: (Hindustan Times): The committees appointed by the Supreme Court regarding the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple met jointly Tuesday and decided to create a special agency for valuing the treasures found in the temple vaults, estimated to be worth nearly USD 21.5 billion. Of the temple’s six vaults, five have been opened, based on a…
Source If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.— Chinese proverb