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Source No fruit is too heavy for the tender creeper. Similarly, a mother will always find some means to support her child.— Tamil Proverb

Source [HPI will, in rare occasions, bring you non-religious articles of interest. This is one of them.] UK, May 21, 2011 (BBC): The material graphene was touted as “the next big thing” even before its pioneers were handed the Nobel Prize last year. Many believe it could spell the end for silicon and change the future of computers and other…

Source INDIA, May 5, 2011: While the United States struggles to right itself from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the Indian economy steams ahead with an annual growth rate of more than 9 percent. How did India sidestep the financial meltdown as supposedly more sophisticated operators in the U.S. stumbled? Indian leaders have a different business model…

Source Find God.That is the only purpose in life.”— Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886)

Source MIDDLETOWN, MD, USA, May 20, 2011: Thousands of people around the country have spent the last few days taking to the streets and saying final goodbyes before Saturday, Judgment Day, when they expect to be absorbed into heaven in a process known as The Rapture. Nonbelievers, they hold, will be left behind to perish along with the world over…

Source NEW YORK, May 3, 2011: The population of the world, long expected to stabilize just above 9 billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100, the United Nations projected in a report released Tuesday. Growth in Africa remains so high that the population there could more than…

Source CHENNAI, INDIA, May 9, 2011: Keeping alive the legacy of Swami Chinmayananda’s service to mankind, the Chinmaya Mission of Chennai has established an informative archive comprising an audio-visual exhibit and a rare collection of images on the life and works of Swami Chinmayananda. The project, “Call of the Rishi,” is an initiative by his devotees to express their gratitude…

Source KATMANDU, NEPAL, February 26, 2010: Some people live charmed lives. In 2004, two years after he climbed Mt. Everest for the seventh time, American mountaineering legend Peter Athans took part in a charitable cataract operation project in northern Nepal that changed the lives of nearly 300 beneficiaries. That has led to a discovery that, once fully understood, could throw…

Source The food of the soul is silence. If we don’t practice silence, we are starving ourselves.— Dada J.P. Vaswani, spiritual head of Sadhu Vaswani mission

Source UNITED KINGDOM, May 4, 2011: “Love comes after the marriage,” says Murugavel Janakiraman, the founder and chief executive of one of India’s largest matrimonial website companies, BharatMatrimony. The entrepreneur believes it is a philosophy ingrained in Indian culture and one of the reasons Indians place more importance on matching other “various criteria” before tying the knot – “religion, language……