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…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com You are your own friend and your own enemy. Yogaswami of Jaffna(1872-1964)
Source: www.vcstar.com VENTURA, CALIFORNIA, November 5, 2010: Priests sitting on a cushioned platform chanted in Sanskrit. Women in saris danced. Husbands and wives washed marble statues of Lord Shiva and other Hindu Gods in holy water from the Ganges River. On a sweltering Friday, in a business park behind the Ventura Auto Center, a small Hindu community started three days…
Source: Religion News Service WASHINGTON, DC, November 17, 2010: President Obama signed an executive order today that reforms the White House’s faith-based office in a bid to improve transparency and clarify rules for religious groups that receive federal grants. The nine-page order reflects numerous recommendations made more than six months ago by a blue-ribbon advisory council charged with streamlining and…
Source: www.coloradoan.com FORT COLLINS, COLORADO, November 2010, by Maya Jairam: Many people wonder who exactly are HIndus and what do they believe, as well as what does it mean to be a Hindu? A study published in Newsweek that found a large number of Americans, upward of 65 percent of the population, agreed with at least one major Hindu belief…
Source: t.ymlp28.com WASHINGTON, DC, November 17, 2010 (Press Release from Sheetal Shah, Senior Director of the Hindu American Foundation) The application for our Washington D.C.- based internship, Hindu American Capitol Hill Leadership Initiative, is now available (click on the source link, above). Download it today! This exciting opportunity will allow selected applicants to spend approximately eight weeks in Summer 2011…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com “According to me, the influence of Sanskrit literature will not be lesser than what was, in the 16th century, Greece’s influence on Renaissance. One day, India’s wisdom will flow again on Europe and will totally transform our knowledge and thought.” Arthur Schopenhauer in “The World as a Will and Representation” (1788-1860). He was the first Western philosopher to…
Source: www.centralchronicle.com GANGOTRI, INDIA, November 3, 2010: Gangotri temple priests have agreed to bring in young and talented dalits into the temple precincts for training as new priests. Gangotri Mandir’s chief priest and management president, Pt. Sanjiv Semwal with his team of office bearers, have agreed to the change. Terming the move as historic,Rajya Sabha M.P. Tarun Vijay, who took…