NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 28, 2011: The the Airports Authority of India (AAI) had asked, three months ago, that the Shiva Murti near IGI Airport’s newest runway be reduced from its 86 foot-high statue’s height, or relocated. The request produced no response and the AAI on Friday referred the matter to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation for action. The…
ALABAMA, USA, January 29, 2011: You would think Julia Roberts would not be the icon conjured up in you rmind when envisioning humanity’s oldest living religion. And yet the star of Eat, Pray, Love, about a woman’s spiritual journey through India and other places, became just that when she revealed that she, her husband and their three children were Hindu.…
Be happy with your achievements, which are done with willpower. That will help accomplish your goals and, further, give you confidence to carry out more tasks. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001) Source
KAUAI, HI, USA, May, 1996 (by Hinduism Today’s Editor-in-Chief): Nations are defined, in practical reality, not by their financial clout or military strength, not by cultural heritage or natural resources, nor even by their political system and history. They are defined by their traffic. Show me a nation’s roads, and I’ll show you its very soul. There are the world’s…
NEW YORK, January 28, 2011: ‘Taxi Yoga,’ declares the flier. ‘No more Road Rage. Become a Road Sage!’ The flier is one of more than 3,000 that Andrew Vollo had sent or handed out to promote his Taxi Yoga class. He had visited mosques, Sikh gurdwaras, Hindu temples and had been interviewed on the cable show ‘India Talks.’ For this…
KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 30, 2011: A Nepalese Hindu has dragged the government to court over its decision to open the main treasury of Nepal’s famous Pashupatinath Temple, that is believed to have remained padlocked for centuries. Bharat Jangam, a Hindu activist and writer, has filed a petition in the Supreme Court, pleading to strike down the decision taken by the…
India conquered and dominated China culturally [through Buddhism] for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. %26nbsp;%26nbsp;%26nbsp;Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to the United States Source
NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 25, 2011: Severe criticism of its remarks over conversion has forced the Supreme Court to expunge its controversial observations on the subject of conversion. As reported by HPI on January 23, The Supreme Court on Friday held that conversion from one religion to another had no justification in ‘secular’ India as it amounted to interference in…
INDIA, January 23, 2011: (by By Gopalakrishnan Nair) Swami Purushottamananda, one of the senior disciples of Pujya Swami Chinmayananda, attained Mahasamadhi on January 17, 2011. He served as the Resident Acharya of Chinmaya Mission, Kolhapur and Chinmaya Mission’s Regional Head for Maharashtra, Goa and Gujarat. He was trained and taught by Swami Chinmayananda at the first Vedanta course conducted at…
SOUTH AFRICA, January 30, 2011: A Priest from the United States has been enlisted to help a local organisation with it’s Hindu revival campaign. Pandit Chunelall Narine, founder and head priest of the Shri Trimurti Bhavan in the U.S., was invited to the country by the South African Hindu Dharma Sabha to help with their Hindu Renaissance Festival. Narine, also…