Source: www.trinidadexpress.com TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, October 27, 2010: Divali is an important national celebration in Trinidad. Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism Winston Peters distributed cheques amounting to $4 million for the hosting of this year’s Divali celebrations across Trinidad and Tobago. The handing over took place at the ministry’s head office at Frederick Street, Port of Spain. Among the two…
Source: www.thehindu.com HYDERABAD, INDIA, November 6, 2010: Language learning has just gotten easier. In an instance of technology usefully deployed for the cause of culture, a non-resident Indian from the U.S. has designed a user-friendly language-learning application for mobile devices, intended primarily for the offspring of the Indian diaspora. Sreekanth Chintala, a Database Technology Strategist from Austin, Texas, U.S., conceptualized…
Source: www.newamerica.net UNITED STATES, October 13, 2010, by Phillip Longman: “The world faces a population bomb,” we often hear. Is it true? Yes, but it will be a boom of old people. It’s true that the world’s population overall will increase by roughly one-third over the next 40 years, from 6.9 to 9.1 billion, according to the U.N. Population Division.…
Source: HPI KAUAI, USA, November 19, 2010: Hinduism Today’s April/May/June edition will bring and Educational Insight on Japa, the repetition of a mantra. Submissions are needed and welcome: anything you think would enhance the piece: quotes from scripture, insights from swamis, personal testimony, uplifting short articles that might make for good sidebars. We also need good imagery. One idea that…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com As you pray to God for devotion, so also pray that you may not find fault with anyone. Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886)
Source: www.bbc.co.uk NORTHAMPTON, U.K., November 10, 2010: Plans for a US$19 million Hindu temple and community center in Northampton have been approved. The complex will include leisure facilities and a center to promote Anglo-Indian business and will use solar and geo-thermal pump technology. It will be called the Kutumbh Center and is being built by the Indian Hindu Welfare Organisation…
Source: www.washingtonpost.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 27, 2010: It was just past noon when dozens of mothers and daughters at India’s most luxurious mall sauntered right past the glittering showrooms of Jimmy Choo and Louis Vuitton and into a brunch celebrating the sari. India’s supercharged economy has brought a parade of posh international designers to the capital that offer miniskirts…
Source: www.dailypioneer.com INDIA, November 10, 2010: The Indians who came to attend the evening event that promised a good treat of Brazilian music were definitely surprised when the sound of Om Namah Shivaya echoed in the auditorium and greeted them. None of them would have thought that the woman in her late 20s and dressed in a perfect Western evening…
Source: Religion News Service WASHINGTON, DC, November 18, 2010: A day after ordering a host of changes to the White House’s faith-based office, President Obama is facing mounting criticism for keeping in place Bush-era policies that allow faith-based social service providers to hire and fire based on religion. Theissue is whether religious groups that receive federal grants can hire and…
Source: www.nytimes.com INDIA, November 17, 2010: India’s rapidly growing private microcredit industry faces imminent collapse as almost all borrowers in one of India’s largest states have stopped repaying their loans. Initially the work of nonprofit groups, the tiny loans to the poor known as microcredit once seemed a promising path out of poverty for millions. In recent years, foundations, venture…