AUBURN, AUSTRALIA, March 25, 2011: The bullet holes can still be seen on the exterior of Auburn’s Sri Mandir Temple. Less visible are the marks left by the shot that made its way inside Australia’s first Hindu temple, when it was peppered by about eight rounds. Two men in balaclavas were captured firing the shots on the night of March…
USA, March 30, 2011: Holi has gone mainstream worldwide — if not yet in the numbers of people joining the celebration, at least in public awareness. Here are local media reports, from places you never knew had ever heard about Holi: Caracas, Venezuela:Millions of Indians celebrated Holi on Sunday, one of the festivals of the Hindu religion, that welcomes spring.…
Nothing has been left undone, either by man or Nature, to make India the most extraordinary country the Sun visits on his round. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked. — Mark Twain Source
DALLAS, USA, March 23, 2011: Organized religion would all but vanish eventually from nine Western-style democracies if current social trends continued, a team of mathematicians predict in a new paper based on census data stretching back 100 years.The prediction was made based on mathematical modeling using census data of countries. The team took census data stretching back as far as…
ISLAMABAD, March 2011: In Islamabad, the Rawal Lake temple, although on its last legs, exudes presence. It is a rectangular building with two arched openings on its southern side. There are five flights of steps leading to the garbhagriha, a small unlit shrine where only priests may enter. Today, one finds rubbish inside the main chamber of the Rawal lake…
WASHINGTON, March 2011: Atheist Michael Newdow plans to continue his fight to get ‘In God We Trust’ off U.S. currency after the Supreme Court denied a hearing in his case on Monday (March 7).‘I plan on bringing the lawsuit again on behalf of other Americans who believe they are injured when the government lends its power to one side of…
UNITED STATES, March 2011: The Hindu-American Foundation is sponsoring a traveling speaker series in the U.S. featuring Waytha Moorthy, Malaysian Human Rights activist, lawyer, and founder of Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF). In November 2007, HINDRAF organized a mammoth rally of 50,000 Hindus and ethnic Indians in peaceful protest against the Malaysian government for its mistreatment and marginalization of Indians.…
INDIA, March 19, 2011: Kancheepuram’s Shankara Math is setting up a pathshala on the outskirts of Chennai city, affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education. Spread over five acres, the pathshala was inaugurated by Kanchi Shankaracharya Sri Jayendra Saraswathi on March 16 at Rajakilpakkam, 9.3 miles from Chennai. Boys and girls of any faith are welcome to get enrolled…
O God of mercy who performs the dance of illimitable happiness in the hall of inconceivable intelligence! The Rig and the other Vedas are thundering forth in words, announcing to us that all are thy slaves, all things belong to thee, all actions are thine, that thou pervades everywhere, that this is thy nature. Such is the teaching of those…
NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 9, 2011: The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, addressed a gathering on the launch of the film ‘I Believe’- universal values for a global society on the philosophy and vision of Dr. Karan Singh for India and the World in the 21st Century. He also released the book ‘Kashmir and Beyond: 1966-84’ – select correspondence between…