Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com SHIMLA, INDIA, October 4, 2010: To follow tradition sometimes seems unorthodox. But for centuries, Muslims have been the musicians in some of Himachal Pradesh’s Hindu temples. In the Chintpurni temple in Una district, Naina Devi in Bilaspur district or Jawalaji and Chamunda in Kangra district, it is the Muslims who help the priests in performing rituals by playing…
Source: news.discovery.com NOVA SCOTIA, October 2010: If demand for meat, poultry, eggs and dairy keeps pace with projections, by 2050 the environmental consequences of livestock production could be responsible for 70 percent of the total greenhouse gas emissions considered a safe threshold for the planet, new research says. By comparison, a UN report estimated that livestock production in 2000 produced…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Oneness amongst men, the advancement of unity in diversity–this has been the core religion of India. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Source: lite.epaper.timesofindia.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 2010: It may have come as a surprise to many when a God, Bhagwan Sri Ram Virajman, fought litigation for the last 21 years before the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court through his representative, Deoki Nandan Agarwal and has now won ownership rights over the disputed site in Ayodhya. Can a Deity, like…
Source: www.nytimes.com INDIA, October 11, 2010: Two years ago, a team of linguists plunged into the remote hill country of northeastern India to study little-known languages, many of them unwritten and in danger of falling out of use. On average, every two weeks one of the world’s recorded 7,000 languages becomes extinct, and the expedition was seeking to document and…
Source: www.upi.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, October 2, 2010: A group advocating for minorities in India is lobbying for the removal of a statue of Mohandas Gandhi in San Francisco. “The popular image of Gandhi as an egalitarian pacifist is a myth,” Bhajan Singh, a member of the Organization for Minorities of India, said in a statement. “We plan to challenge…
Source: www.hindu.com BANGALORE, INDIA, September 16, 2010: Though government agencies have over the past few years appealed to residents to use eco-friendly Ganesha murtis to immerse in local rivers — that is, those made of clay — till last year, the response had been poor. But this year, 58.3 per cent of the 3,700 murtis immersed in the 13 mobile…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com When you react to a situation, do not re-enact it. Wait until the emotional nature has completely composed itself, then study your reaction. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6686422.cms?prtpage=1#ixzz11Vztyn4o KOLKATA, INDIA, October 5, 2010: In the first arrests of its kind in the country, police in Kolkata on Monday picked up the principal of the city’s famous 175-year-old La Martiniere for Boys School and three other teachers and booked them for handing out corporal punishment to a student, who later committed suicide. Sunirmal Chakravarthy and the three…
Source: www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, USA, October 9, 2010: “There is research that shows people still have the same self-control as in decades past, but we are bombarded more and more with temptations,” said Kathleen Vohs, associate professor of marketing at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. “Our psychological system is not set up to deal with…