Source August 24, 2011 (Salon.com, by David Sirota): Food has become a political issue in America, and some carnivores have become increasingly aggressive toward anyone or any fact that suggests they reconsider their culinary habit. Some will even aggressively challenge a person who quietly declines to eat meat. The author, raised in a meat-eating family but vegetarian for over a…
Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, September 27, 2011 (WNYC): It’s a big season for Indian art at New York City museums. As the Brooklyn Museum wraps up its “Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior” exhibit this weekend, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens its own major show of art from the subcontinent on Wednesday. The show, called “Wonder of the Age: Master…
Source PUNE, INDIA, September 22, 2011 (Times of India): Under the National Manuscripts Mission, a collection of around 40,000 manuscripts in Sanskrit are being digitized at the Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal. A team began work over a month ago. The work includes digitizing manuscripts from private sources in the city as well. The process of digitization began at early August,…
Source KAPAA, HI, USA. October 5, 2011: Wikipedia, ever a work in progress, has established itself as the world’s most important repository of information, the first place to go to learn about almost anything. Curated by dedicated contributors, behind the scenes Wikipedia works to assess the quality of information presented and fill in the gaps. One of the methods is…
HPI INDIA, October 4, 2011 (HPI): Tavathiru Nachiappa Gnanadesika Swami of Koviloor Aadheenam, the math’s 12th matadhipathi, left his body at age 70. A brilliant man with an expertise in photography and printing technology, Swami took sannyas later in life. He was part of the Kalakshetra established by Smt. Rukmini Devi Arundable for nearly six decades. After renouncing the world…
Source Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.— Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh (1887-1963), founder of Divine Life Society
HPI KAPAA, HI, USA. October 5, 2011 (HPI): The monks of Kauai Aadheenam, from where Hinduism Today and HPI are published, have been using Macintoshes since their release more than twenty years ago. It is with these remarkable tools that we make our voice heard loud and clear across continents, lauding Hinduism and protecting dharma from what is otherwise a…
Source Make the mind always remain poised, like a hummingbird over a flower, so that you begin to live in the eternal now constantly, permanently.— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
Press Release COLUMBUS, OHIO, October 1, 2011: Over 280 delegates representing nearly 100 Mandirs (temples) and Hindu organizations from across the world participated in the sixth annual Hindu Mandir Executives’ Conference (HMEC). The gathering was held from September 23rd through 25th, 2011 in Columbus, Ohio. The Sixth HMEC was hosted by Bharatiya Hindu Temple (Columbus) and ten other Mandir co-hosts…
Source PORTUGAL, September 30, 2011 (RTP): A Handbook of Hospital Spiritual and Religious Care, a synopsis of “feasible and practical” aspects of each religious tradition’s requests regarding their faithful under hospital care, was presented on Tuesday in Lisbon. The elaboration of this document was done by the Working Group for Inter-religious Spiritual and Religious Hospital Guidance and will be presented…