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Source Temper is the one thing you can’t get rid of by losing it.— Jack Nicholson in the movie “Anger Management “

Source PHANOM DONGRAK, THAILAND, April 27, 2011: Artillery fire boomed across the Thai-Cambodian frontier for a seventh day Thursday as fierce border clashes erupted again between the two neighbors. The border dispute has stirred nationalist sentiment on both sides. In Cambodia, field commander Col. Suos Sothea said the fighting was centering again around the ruins of two crumbling stone temples…

Source MALAYSIA, April 15, 2011 (The Star): The Malaysia Hindu Sangam is taking the necessary action to ensure Tamil religious classes are held in schools and temples nationwide by next year. It quoted its president R.S. Mohan Shan as saying that the organization would have 2,500 locally-trained religious teachers to conduct the classes in the next five years. Shan said…

Source I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon the dewdrop.— Kahlil Gibran

Source INDIA, April 3, 2011: Christian missionaries have adopted the latest marketing strategy to hoodwink the gullible, poor, uneducated Hindus in Bangalore by offering plain cash prizes for those who dump the photos of Hindu Gods and replace them with photos of Jesus in their houses. And a bonus cash prize will be offered to those Hindus who wear a…

Source BANGKOK, THAILAND, April 11, 2011 (Bangkok Post): Girish Giridhara’s arms are tattooed with Hindu Gods, Goddesses and sacred mantras. The spiritual designs are intricate but also hardly surprising for a man who once trained to be a priest. The 36-year-old tattoo artist was an exhibitor at the Indian Ink tattoo convention. The exhibition in Mumbai this weekend is billed…

Source MADURAI, INDIA, April 15, 2011 (THe HIndu): A state-of-the-art control room to operate 32 Internet-Protocol Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras, which will monitor all the entrances and exits and detect suspicious movement of visitors to Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple here was commissioned on Friday. All the cameras can be accessed and controlled through the Internet. The cameras have the platform…

Source If our country is to produce robust, intellectual, and long-lived children who believe in God, we must, in my humble opinion, learn ways to control our sense organs. Sri K. — Pattabhi Jois, from his book Yoga Mala

Source INDIA, April 2011: Teenagers who spend hours plugged into their MP3 players are at greater risk of depression than their friends who prefer reading, new research by a team of American scientists suggests. Adolescents who excessively listen to music are over eight times likelier to suffer major depressive disorders than those who hardly listen to music, according to the…

Source KASHMIR, April 18, 2011: Though the Kashmir valley has for centuries had a Muslim majority, its Hindu population – commonly known as Pandits – were always an integral part of the community. Hindus claim their history here dates back thousands of years. When a separatist militancy gathered pace two decades ago, up to 400,000 Hindus either fled or were…