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The festival honoring the Hindu God Skanda will continue for 27 days until the 30th of this month. The festival includes chariot processions, drumming, dancing and acts of self-mortification, according to the organizers of the festival. Organizers say that strict dress code guidelines will be in place for devotees entering the temple during the festival period. Accordingly, men will not…

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HPI KAUAI, HI, USA, August 4, 2011: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of Hinduism Today, will be visiting Trinidad and giving lectures. The first one, on August 6, 2011, will be at the Chinmaya Mission at McBean Village, from 9 a.m. to noon, with the subject: Prayer, Meditation and Values. On the next day the lecture will be at Queen’s Hall…

Source Arise, awake! Stop not till the goal is reached.— Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), disciple of Sri Ramakrisha

Source INDIA, July 9, 2011 (by Tavishi Paitandy Rastogi for the Hindustan Times): In the Seventies, feminists urged women to go out of their homes and work. Domesticity limited their potential, women were told, they could do much more with their lives than remain restricted to their nurturing and homemaking roles. ‘What men can do, women can do too, and…

Source VAL-MORIN, QUEBEC, July 24, 2011 (Radio Canada): Val-Morin, Quebec, took on the colors of India and Sri Lanka Sunday, during the biggest Hindu pilgrimage in North America. Tens of thousands of Tamil Hindus from Quebec, Ontario and the United States, gathered to participate in the Kavadi procession, which celebrates the God Murugan. Fasting, singing, dancing, trances and rituals of…

Source CHENNAI, INDIA, July 22, 2011 (Livemint): When Hillary Clinton charted the second leg of her recent India trip, very few people expected her to travel from Delhi to Chennai–a first for any US secretary of state. Many observers speculated that her decision was probably driven by the presence of a large number of American-owned car-making and computer-manufacturing factories near…

Source With love enshrined in the heart, one truly lives. Without it, the body is but bones encased in skin.— Tirukkural 80

Source INDIA, July 12, 2011 (mea.gov.in): India was the third largest investor in Britain during 2010-11 with 97 new projects, generating several jobs in a country facing recession and major job losses, according to official figures released today. “Among the high growth markets, India and China are still the two principal sources of inward investment by project numbers,” an official…

Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 11, 2011 (Hindustan Times): Senior officials in the Delhi government said most temples do not have a trust or an agency to oversee the management, which is resulting in poor upkeep of the temple and lack of basic amenities to thousands of visitors everyday. Officials said the government has two ministers to work out a…