Source UNITED STATES, April 2011 (by Roy Ritchie for Car and Driver): Getting to drive a Cadillac CTS-V wagon for 40,000 miles is a blessing in itself, but with 556 horsepower on tap, we figured it couldn’t hurt to have our newest long-termer blessed by a Hindu priest. So we took it in for a pooja, which is a Hindu…
Source INDIA, March, 28, 2011 (The Times of India): Dipti S. Tripathi is the director of the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM), an organisation working for the conservation and preservation of Indian manuscripts. Their latest project – building a database of digitized manuscripts – has taken off with the successful digitization of over 9.3 million folios. Tripathi spoke about the…
Source VRINDAVAN, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA, May 6, 2011 (Daily India): Hundreds of devotees thronged the Banke Bihari Mandir in Uttar Pradesh’s Vrindavan town on Friday to mark the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya. Akshaya Tritiya, known as Akshaya Teej in Uttar Pradesh, is the third day of the lunar fortnight of Vaishakh, which is considered one of the most sacred days…
Source This was in the late 70s, I was eating when I suddenly felt that the meat tasted dead, like ashes in my mouth. It was nothing spiritual, it was just that my body told me. I realized then I wanted fresh life taste in my food, and with meat, we do not even know how long it has been…
Source INDIA, May 2, 2011 (BBC): The ancient art of Madhubani painting is widely practiced in the Mithila region of the northern Indian state of Bihar. The art originated from Madhubani town and, traditionally, the artists were all women. Originally, pictures were painted on the mud walls of village huts. But now artists paint on paper, cloth and canvas too.…
HPI KAUAI, HI, US, May 6, 2011 (HPI): Bangalore’s famed Sri Kailash Ashrama has released the first English translation of a key section, the Mahatmya Khandam, of the famed Tripurarahasyam. Literally, the title means “Secret of the Three Worlds,” but here it is in the sense of secrets of the Divine Mother who presides over the physical and spiritual universes.…
Source US, May 1, 2011 (by David Briggs at the Huffington Post): In the 1960s and 1970s, Hinduism seemed on the path to spectacular growth in the United States as immigration laws eased and some Indian spiritual leaders were embraced by the counterculture of the 1960s. The forecasts were half right. But the road traveled toward Hinduism in America was…
Source SOUTH AFRICA, April 23, 2011 (The Times Live): Thousands of Hindu devotees will visit temples this weekend in accordance with a practice started by indentured Indian sugar-cane labourers about 100 years ago. The Isipingo Mariamman Temple and the Shri Mariammen Temple in Mount Edgecombe will be bustling as devotees from across the country pay homage during the Easter week…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA April 18, 2011 (Telegraph India): Mariners from India’s east coast exploited monsoon winds to sail to southeast Asia more than 2,000 years ago, an archaeologist has proposed, challenging a long-standing view that a Greek navigator had discovered monsoon winds. Sila Tripati at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, has combined archaeological, meteorological, and literary data…
Source ABBOTSFORD, BC, CANADA, May 3, 2011 (The Times of Canada) :An Abbotsford Hindu temple suffered an estimated $250,000 in damages after a fire on Wednesday morning. Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service was called out to the Fraser Valley Hindu Society Temple at around 10:45 a.m. Fire crews arrived to find smoke and fire coming from the rear of the one-storey…