Source: www.hinduismtoday.com USA, November 7, 2010: The popular Hindu festival of Diwali was celebrated all over the globe on November 4-5, by Hindus and many of their non-Hindu friends. Diwali (or Deepavali, “row of lights”) is celebrated by Hindus worldwide to commemorate the triumph of good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, hope over despair. If you rolled a bit of…
Source: www.nytimes.com MUMBAI, INDIA, November 7, 2010: Obama was dancing around questions in India– figuratively speaking — on Sunday, he also participated in some literal dancing, showing off some moves that, to the delight of photographers traveling with him, are likely to provide iconic images of his trip. President Obama danced with students during a Diwali Candle Lighting and Performance,…
Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/ “Schedule tribes or endogenous communities are amongst the most ecologically evolved communities amongst the world, but sadly also amongst the most economically backward ones in India,” says Darren Lobo of Grassroutes. He informs that most tribal villages just receive two-three hours of electricity per day, hampering a child’s ability to read or play once the sun sets. Lobo…
Source: www.timeslive.co.za SOUTH AFRICA, October 26, 2010: An East Coast Radio comedy program caused a stir among some South African Hindus. The broadcaster said it was no use killing Hindus because they “keep coming back”, a sentence that constituted hate speech, the Broadcasting Complaints Commission has ruled. The ruling was despite the fact that the August 16 broadcast – a…
Source: www.nytimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 2, 2010 (By Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist): Having traveled to both China and India in the last few weeks, here’s a scary thought I have: What if — for all the hype about China, India and globalization — they’re actually underhyped? What if these sleeping giants are just finishing a 20-year process…
Source: www.organiser.org THE PHILIPPINES, October 29, 2010: In 1989, a man in the concrete business was dredging sand at the mouth of the Lumbang River near Laguna de Bay when he uncovered a blackened roll of metal. He unfurled the roll he saw that it was a sheet of copper with strange writing on it, about the size of a…
Source: pib.nic.in NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 20, 2010: Our planet’s biodiversity is the outcome of over 3.5 billion years of evolutionary history, shaped by natural processes and increasingly, by the influence of humans. But biodiversity is not distributed uniformly across the globe. Certain countries, lying wholly or partly within the tropics, are characterized by high species richness and more number…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com “I’ve always been a supporter of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Source: www.signonsandiego.com SAN DIEGO, CA, October 24, 2010: As the sun began to set Sunday night, volunteers lit the wicks of dozens of ornate brass lamps arranged near Balboa Park’s Alcazar Garden. They were among the thousands of people who had gathered for the third annual Diwali Festival of Light, a little early, in San Diego. [HPI note: Diwali happens…
Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/ “Schedule tribes or endogenous communities are amongst the most ecologically evolved communities amongst the world, but sadly also amongst the most economically backward ones in India,” says Darren Lobo of Grassroutes. He informs that most tribal villages just receive two-three hours of electricity per day, hampering a child’s ability to read or play once the sun sets. Lobo…