Source: www.thehindu.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 15, 2010: The Supreme Court on Friday asked Parliament to revisit the provision relating to cruelty and dowry harassment, pointing out that large number of frivolous complaints are filed and courts are flooded with such matrimonial cases. Writing the judgment, Justice Bhandari said “The criminal trials lead to immense sufferings for all concerned. Even…
Source: www.thehindu.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 15, 2010: The Supreme Court on Friday asked Parliament to revisit the provision relating to cruelty and dowry harassment, pointing out that large number of frivolous complaints are filed and courts are flooded with such matrimonial cases. Writing the judgment, Justice Bhandari said “The criminal trials lead to immense sufferings for all concerned. Even…
Source: www.tamilnet.com SRI LANKA, August 17, 2020: “Sri Lanka government is systematically destructing Hindu temples in the Eastern Province and constructing Buddhist Viharas in their places and one cannot remain passive while the Sinhala Buddhist chauvinists continue to destroy Hindu temples and appropriate the traditional Tamil lands for the occupying Sri Lanka Army,” said S. Yogeswaran, Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian…
Source: www.freep.com DETROIT, MICHIGAN, August 8, 2010: A Hindu advocacy group reached out to metro Detroiters to explain its efforts and raise awareness about the world’s third biggest religion. The Hindu American Foundation, led by Southfield native Dr. Mihir Meghani, held its event today in Farmington Hills. About 100 Hindus, along with leaders in the Catholic, Episcopal, and Jewish communities,…
Source: www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, August 25, 2010: “Civilizations are processes, not things.” These true words by Sheldon Pollock, a scholar of Sanskrit and Indian history at Columbia University, aptly describe a civilization’s art as well. It is easy to witness this flux in the exhitbit “Gods of Angkor: Bronzes From the National Museum of Cambodia,” Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, where…
Source: HPI KAUAI, HAWAII, August 26, 2010: The article “Raimon Panikkar, Theology Rebel, Dies at 72” from yesterday’s edition of HPI incorrectly stated Panikkar’s age as 72. He was 91.
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com The future is the continuing summation of all our past actions and reactions, for there is only the moment in which we live. The eternal now is the only consciousness we have when living in the higher states of mind. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Source: HPI KAUAI, HAWAII, August 26, 2010: Raimon Panikkar embodied endless contradictions, though he saw none. He was a devout Christian, who said he had become a Hindu and later a Buddhist. He was a Roman Catholic priest who used zealous reason to pursue the unfathomable mysteries of faith. He married at age 70, but continued to think of himself…
Source: www.monstersandcritics.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 3, 2010: An Australian woman had her last wishes fulfilled when a clerk in the northern Indian state of Haryana travelled hundreds of miles to scatter her ashes in the Ganges River. Jill Villers was born in 1945 in Lahore, a city in pre-partition India which now lies in Pakistan. She passed away at…
Source: expressbuzz.com BANGALORE, INDIA, August 5, 2010: The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board on Thursday called on Bangaloreans to celebrate Ganesha festival in an eco-friendly way. Tupil Venkatesh, an environmental consultant, said there was a need for 12 million Ganesha statues for the 60 million population in the state. “An average murti weighs about 4.4 lbs. and contains around 7…