ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, April 1, 2011: Glenn K. Murphy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gap Inc., with Mayor Francis Slay at his side, announced Gap’s successful sponsorship of the 2014 Kumbha Mela in St. Louis at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. The huge clothing retailer, with 3,200 stores worldwide, has been working to incorporate Indian fashion design…
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Religion offered nothing to the point. When I discovered reincarnation … time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. — American auto industrialist Henry Ford Source
MIDLAND, TEXAS, March 30, 2011: An interfaith event is scheduled in Midland Texas, on April 7th, 2011, 7 pm at St Stephen’s Catholic church. This will be the Permian Basin’s first interfaith event, where leaders of five religious traditions will discuss contemporary issues and how our faith allows us to understand and confront present day matters. These fascinating and challenging…
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.…
TEXAS, March 26, 2011: Students from the University of Texas in Austin celebrated the Festival of Colors or, Holi on the South Mall of the UT campus on March 26, 2011. The Hindu Students Association, one of the largest campus student organizations in the nation, coordinated the festival. See a beautiful slideshow here. Source
NEW YORK, March 22, 2011: On Sunday, 125th Street erupted with music and color, as thousands of people streamed by house celebrating Hol, the Hindu holiday that greets spring’s arrival. People bounced with excitement on the sidewalk, their hands full of colored powder used for greeting friends and strangers, smearing stripes of pink, green and purple on anyone who offered…
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…