Source: www.hindustantimes.com INDIA, August 22, 2010: A new website set up by the Common-wealth Games Travel Office, incredibleairindiapackages.org, provides social cues to foreigners planning to visit India during the Games. A kiss on the cheek while greeting a female acquaintance is “just not done” when you are in India. Tourists should, however, discuss politics. Most Indians love to talk politics…
Source: www.bakersfield.com USA, August 20, 2010 (by Stafford Betty, professor of religious studies at Cal State Bakersfield): A recent poll conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life revealed that 28 percent of American Catholic adults believe in reincarnation. Why have so many adopted the belief? What attracts them to it? In the course of teaching Asian religions…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com O God of mercy who performs the dance of illimitable happiness in the hall of inconceivable intelligence! The Rig and the other Vedas are thundering forth in words, announcing to us that all are thy slaves, all things belong to thee, all actions are thine, that thou pervades everywhere, that this is thy nature. Such is the teaching…
Source: www.bakersfield.com USA, August 20, 2010 (by Stafford Betty, professor of religious studies at Cal State Bakersfield): A recent poll conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life revealed that 28 percent of American Catholic adults believe in reincarnation. Why have so many adopted the belief? What attracts them to it? In the course of teaching Asian religions…
Source: www.deccanherald.com CHENNAI, INDIA, August 8, 2010: Over 100-odd captive elephants kept in various famous temples of Tamil Nadu are plagued by one ill-health or the other. Woken up by a recent study by researchers of the Wildlife Science Department of the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University here that found nearly 90 per cent of the temple elephants…
Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, August 2010: Pramila Jayapal locks arms with other protesters in a Seattle skyscraper to block access to federal immigration courts. Jayapal is a strong voice, says U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, in the national immigration debate — a long way from her days as a Wall Street investment banker. Now Jayapal is leading the state’s largest immigrant-advocacy…
Source: www.todotvnews.com ARGENTINA, June 5, 2010: Georgia, Serbia, Russia, Colombia, Argentina and many more. The number of countries where the Brazilian soap opera “India, a Love Story” is broadcast is growing rapidly. The telenovela is one of the most successful internationally distributed tv products, sold to approximately 130 countries, as confirmed by the Brazilian company. Globo TV International concluded its…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com We all love animals. Why do we call some pets and others dinner? K.D. Lang, pop singer
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com No fruit is too heavy for the tender creeper. Similarly, a mother will always find some means to support her child. Tamil Proverb
Source: goparis.about.com PARIS, FRANCE, August 19, 2010: As the last summer festivals in Paris trickle away, one upcoming event promises more color than usual: the Ganesha Festival, held in the tiny stretch of northeast Paris that has come to be known as “Little Jaffna.” Every year, the local Sri Lankan community gathers to honor the Hindu God of prosperity in…