Source KARNATAKA, INDIA, April 2011 (The Hindu): As many as 1,600 organic farmers from Karnataka will now get to visit Cuba to learn about that country’s achievements in organic farming. The Karnataka State Organic Farming Mission, which is organizing the trip, has chosen four organic farmers from each taluk for the trip. The mission had prescribed various guidelines to ensure…
Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, April 18, 2011 (The Deccan Herald): Leading spiritual personality and principal of Ramkrishna Mission movement in Bangladesh, Swami Aksharananda, died here today after prolonged illness at the age of 82. “Principal of Dhaka Ramkrishna Math (monastery) and Ramkrishna Mission breathed his last today at (Dhaka’s) Apollo Hospital,” the Mission said in an announcement. Born at Khurda village…
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 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 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 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