Source: www.deccanherald.com PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, September 5, 2010: A long-standing dispute between a neighbors over the alleged use of a Hindu’s home as a temple is to go to court where lawyers will test the Constitutional prescriptions on religious freedom in South Africa. Aneesa Carrim of the residential suburb of Claudius, some 15 km from the city center of Pretoria,…
Source: www.insidecosmeceuticals.com USA, September 9, 2010, (by Dr. Geetanjali Ranade): The yellow-flowered jasmine variety Hemapushpika (Jasmine humile) is offered by Hindus to God, specifically Shiva and Ganesha. The plant was also held sacred to the followers of Indra, a God who was worshiped even in ancient Persia. With a divine scent that can reach up to 70 meters, white or…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Worrying about something is like paying interest on a debt you don’t even know if you owe. Mark Twain
Source: Principal Held for School Corporal Punishment Case 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…
Source: www.bdnews24.com DHAKA, BANGLADESH, September 24, 2010: Durga Puja (a version of Navaratri) in Bangladesh will be observed from October 13 to October 17 at some 27,000 pavilions or Mandapams around the country, with 180 in the city, the festival organizers have said. Bangladesh Puja Udjapon Parishad said the Puja festivities will take place in 1,000 pavilions more than the…
Source: sify.com KOLKATA, INDIA, September 27, 2010: The recession may have ebbed, but artisans of the potters’ colony Kumartuli here say export orders for statues for next month’s Durga Puja festival have picked up only marginally compared to last year. Kumartuli is a traditional potters’ quarter in northern Kolkata. The artisans here not only supply clay statues of Hindu Gods…
Source: www.thehindu.com UNITED KINGDOM, September 4, 2010: There’s a palpable mood of optimism among Britain’s 2,00,000-strong Dalit community as it waits for the Government to take a decision on its long-standing campaign for caste discrimination to be recognized as racism. Barring a last-minute change, Britain could soon become the first European, indeed Western, country to declare caste prejudice unlawful under…
Source: www.techtree.com INDIA, September 30, 2010: Barely a week after the launch of the iPhone 4 in China, the country biggest mobile carrier China Unicom has revealed that it managed to sell 100,000 units of the device so far. However, what is more interesting is the map application that the Chinese iPhone comes with. Screenshots from the Maps application used…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Youth is not a time of life–it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions. It is freshness of the deep springs of life. Nobody grows old by merely living a…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com USA, October 9, 2010: Navaratri, a festival dedicating nine nights of ardent devotion to the Goddess, is being celebrated since the new moon of October 5. Millions of Hindu women consider Navaratri the year’s central festival, the one they most deeply connect to. These nine days dedicated to Shakti, the Goddess, provide an opportunity to seek blessings and…