Cultural Festival To Mark Big Temple’s Millennium Celebrations

Source: www.thehindu.com THANJAVUR, INDIA, September 2010: The Government will organize a five-day cultural festival from September 22 to 26 involving thousands of artists to mark the millennium celebrations of the Big Temple in Thanjavur. A confluence of a thousand folk artists from 75 troupes in Thanjavur will participate in cultural events to be held in the evenings from September 22…

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Great Lakes Bay Region To Receive Its First Hindu Temple

Source: www.mlive.com KOCHVILLE TWP, MICHIGAN, September 2, 2010: About 300 families in the Great Lakes Bay Region now have a gathering place more than 20 years in the making. On September 12, leaders broke ground and performed an official religious ceremony for the region’s first Hindu temple. “This fulfills a spiritual need for this community,” Dr. K.P. Karunakaran, chairman of…

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Daily Inspiration

Source: www.hinduismtoday.com As you pray to God for devotion, so also pray that you may not find fault with anyone.    Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886)

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God, Soul and World – a Video from “What Is Hinduism?”

Source: vimeo.com KAUAI, HI, USA, September 24, 2010: It was a few years ago that Hinduism Today raised the bar for Hindu publications with the release of “What Is Hinduism?”, a richly illustrated book with more than forty chapters exploring our religion, drawn from the well-polished Insight Sections of the quarterly magazine. It has been an editorial success. Now the…

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Publisher’s Desk: “We Are Whom We Meet”

Source: www.youtube.com KAUAI, HI, USA, September 24, 2010: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami reads his editorial from the October/November/December 2010 edition of HInduism Today magazine in this precious little video. You might be able to make your life more effective and spiritually beneficial by following some simple principles about choosing good company, reinforcing your aura and observing the people that surround you.…

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Milk Miracle in the Caribbean

Source: www.trinidadexpress.com TRINIDAD, September 22, 2010: Reports streaming in indicate that Ganesh Murtis from all quarters of Trinidad were accepting milk. Mandirs, as well as Hindus from their homes have reported live on Radio Jaagriti that Ganesh Murtis have been “drinking milk” when offered on this final day of the Ganesh Utsav. The “miracle”, as it was called by believers,…

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Coral Reefs Drastically Affected by this Year’s Temperatures

Source: www.nytimes.com USA, Sept 20, 2010: This year’s extreme heat is putting the world’s coral reefs under such severe stress that scientists fear widespread die-offs, endangering not only the richest ecosystems in the ocean but also fisheries that feed millions of people. What is unfolding this year is the second known global bleaching of coral reefs. Scientists are holding out…

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God, Soul an World – a Video from “What Is Hinduism?”

Source: vimeo.com KAUAI, HI, USA, September 24, 2010: It was a few years ago that Hinduism Today raised the bar for Hindu publications with the release of “What Is Hinduism?”, a richly illustrated book with more than forty chapters exploring our religion, drawn from the well-polished Insight Sections of the quarterly magazine. It has been an editorial success. Now the…

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Tamil Nadu Archives Need Better Infrastructure

Source: www.thehindu.com INDIA, September 2010: Centralizing, preserving and improving public access to government orders, historical and cultural documents and manuscripts is often considered the most irrefutable form of preserving heritage. The Tamil Nadu Archives, which is considered one of the largest and accessible repositories of documents in South Asia, however needs better infrastructure, speeding up of digitizing important records and…

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