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Source: www.hinduismtoday.com If, after returning from contemplation, you are capable of behaving as before, you have not been transformed.    Anandamayi Ma (1896-1982), God-intoxicated yogini and mystic Bengali saint

Source: www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 22, 2010: Each August, the Erasing Borders festival of Indian dance contributes to the Downtown Dance Festival. Here is a downtown plaza surrounded by skyscrapers, with people coming and going at lunchtime and a soundtrack that includes the harbor and city traffic; and here in the open air are dancers in full Indian…

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com LUCKNOW, INDIA, August 29, 2010: The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad high court has asked the Central government to consider that Shankaracharyas are permitted to carry a religious sceptre with them during air travel. A division Bench of Chief Justice F.I. Rebello and Justice S.N. Shukla, however, did not agree with the view that all the Hindu saints…

Source: www.hinduismtoday.com My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconvenience, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but with this lighter repast I made the greater progress, from greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), inventor, founding father of America, on his vegetarianism

Source: www.punemirror.in PUNE, INDIA, August 30, 2010: A 10 PM curfew on sound pollution prompted Mandar Pataskar to develop “Soundless Ganesha,” a pandal which uses FM transmitters to keep noise pollution at bay during Ganeshotsav. The brainchild of Pataskar and Parag Bhide, a diploma student from MIT, the set-up for a noise-free Ganesh festival is quite simple to use. “People…

source: BBC LEICESTER, UNITED KINGDOM, August 2010: Women are becoming more and more prominent as worship leaders in all faiths in England. And now a woman from Leicester is taking on the largely male strong hold of Hindu priesthood. In her fifties Chanda Vyas achieved her childhood dream, when she became the first female Hindu priest to conduct weddings in…

sou http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/leicester/hi/people_and_places/religion_and_ethics/newsid_8544000/8544260.stm LEICESTER, UNITED KINGDOM, August 2010: Women are becoming more and more prominent as worship leaders in all faiths in England. And now a woman from Leicester is taking on the largely male strong hold of Hindu priesthood. In her fifties Chanda Vyas achieved her childhood dream, when she became the first female Hindu priest to conduct weddings in…

source: hinduacademy LONDON, U.K., August 2010: In the United Kingdom students can study Hinduism in schools and gain accreditation that can help them apply for places at top universities. 16 to 18-year-olds can sit for Advanced level examinations in Hinduism. The results count in their favor when they apply for university places. Each year the Hindu Academy trains perhaps the…

source: http://www.hinduacademy.org LONDON, U.K., August 2010: In the United Kingdom students can study Hinduism in schools and gain accreditation that can help them apply for places at top universities. 16 to 18-year-olds can sit for Advanced level examinations in Hinduism. The results count in their favor when they apply for university places. Each year the Hindu Academy trains perhaps the…

source: sify LUCKNOW, August 27, 2010: A special bench of the Allahabad High Court Monday concluded the hearing related to ownership of a disputed land in Ayodhya to which Hindus and Muslims have made rival claims for over a century. The decision is likely to be delivered in September. While Hindus claim the land to be the site of the…