Source: www.guardian.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, October 27, 2010: The British Humanist Association has launched a campaign to encourage non-believers and the seriously lapsed to tick the “no religion” box on the 2011 census with the aim of challenging religious privilege in Britain. According to the organization, public figures have spent the last 10 years claiming that most people in this country…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Even among high-context cultures, the Indian wedding stands out. It involves as much planning as the construction of a nuclear power plant–except it costs more. Anonymous
Source: www.thehindu.com INDIA, October 2010: Lord Venkateswara, the presiding Deity at the Tirumala temple, received two more precious donations. Reckoned as the richest temple in the world next to the Vatican Church, the Lord of the Seven Hills received a dazzling golden crown weighing 32 lbs. The exquisitely chiseled stone-studded tiara was offered by a Mumbai-based business tycoon who however…
Source: www.thehindu.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 8, 2010: It was a rare gift from U.S. President Barack Obama to the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi — a stone used to build a memorial of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, who was inspired by the Father of the Nation. Mr Obama handed over the memorabilia to Rajnish Kumar, Secretary of Rajghat…
Source: www.indianewscast.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 9, 2010: Michelle Obama just couldn’t stop buying Indian fabrics and products the capitals sun-dappled crafts museum. At the museum on a scheduled stop of one hour, she lingered on for almost two hours, stopping only when she ran out of money after splurging an estimated US$2,000 on bedspreads, paintings and other items, many…
Source: www.nytimes.com USA, November 8, 2010: There was something hiding in plain sight inside our own galaxy. A group of scientists working with data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope said Tuesday that they had discovered two bubbles of energy erupting from the center of the Milky Way. They are not exactly small, either, extending 25,000 light years up and…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com For fear of causing terror to living beings, let the Bodhisattva striving to attain compassion refrain from eating flesh. Gautama The Buddha
Source: www.myfoxorlando.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 21, 2010: A legal dispute between the U.S. and India over an herbal toothpaste was leaving a bitter aftertaste between the two countries Thursday, with Colgate Palmolive accused of filing a bogus patent. Colgate, the world’s largest producer of toothpaste, patented a tooth cleaning powder in the hope that it would take the multibillion-dollar…
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk EAST ANGLIA, UNITED KINGDOM: October 26, 2010: Scientists from the University of East Anglia analyzed existing data on the nutritional and environmental effects of different kinds of foods and recommended eating less beef, sugar, and cheese, as well as drinking less tea and coffee. The report was commissioned by the Food Standards Agency to try to change the…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com India conquered and dominated China culturally [through Buddhism] for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to the United States