Source: www.hindustantimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 28, 2010: Delhi’s Ramlilas, organized during the festival of Navratri, is planned to woo Commonwealth Games tourists with English translators, pamphlets and air-conditioned rooms. “We have a separate wing for the foreign tourists, which have translators to narrate the Ramlila in English, and to explain to them its significance. We are also handin out…
Source: www.hindustantimes.com INDIA, October 13, 2010: Barely a week after two US linguists claimed they uncovered a hidden language in Arunachal Pradesh, an academician based in the frontier state said his post-doctoral work in 2008 dealt extensively with the issue. But Gibji Nimachow would rather not stake any claim to have discovered Koro, which he says is a dialect and…
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Source: www.thehindu.com NEW DELHI, October 11, 2010: A group of artisans from Tamil Nadu is trying to rebuild the Sri Lakshminrisimha temple in Karol Bagh, Delhi. A team of 10 artisans is in the Capital to reconstruct and rebuild the structure. The objective of the temple’s managing committee is to bring to the city one more example of the art…
Source: www.youtube.com USA, October 12, 2010 (press release): What exactly is advocacy? This concept, which is the very focus of the Hindu American Foundation’s efforts, is still a vague and airy-fairy notion for most in the Hindu American community. Yet, advocacy is absolutely vital if our community is to be heard and effectively represented in schools and colleges, newspapers and…
Source: hudsonreporter.com JERSEY CITY, U.S., September 30, 2010: For two weekends in October, the block of Newark Avenue in Jersey City known as “Little India” is be the center of one big religious and cultural get-together. The 2010 Navratri in Jersey City is a street festival of singing and dancing performances, worship services and appearances by local politicians and other…
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…