Source: www.independent.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, June 1, 2010: The head of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the state body in charge of India’s heritage assets, told The Independent that the list of his country’s treasures held abroad was “too long to handle” and there was a need for a “diplomatic and legal campaign” for their restitution from institutions including the…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, June 5, 2010: Religious education is “inadequate” in one in five secondary schools in England, according to watchdog Ofsted. Its study suggested many teachers were unsure of what they were trying to achieve in the subject. The report, Transforming Religious Education, found the quality of religious education had declined since 2007. Inspectors, who visited 183 primary…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com It is far easier to conquer others than to conquer oneself, because the former can be attained by recourse to outside means, while the latter can be achieved only with one’s own mind. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Source: www.thehindu.com CHENNAI, INDIA, June 28, 2010: Vacationers from across the globe can now explore and visit several tourist spots and UNESCO monuments in Tamil Nadu through a virtual tour. Initiated by the Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) recently, a click on the mouse gets one all tourist spots live on screen. “The aim of launching a virtual tour…
Source: www.hindustantimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 13, 2010: Lord Hanuman seems to have a new lot of devotees nowadays, some hopeful Indians with wanderlust. And, if these new devotees are to be believed, Hanuman, who helped Lord Ram rescue his wife from Ravan, is helping them acquire timely visas. The phenomen began in Delhi, but is spreading to other Hanuman…
Source: www.nytimes.com SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, June 5, 2010: The ceremony is simple and common. A Hindu priest lights a fire, places some herbs, clarified butter and other offerings atop it and through its peculiar alchemy the smoke purifies everything it touches. But nothing about this Maha Yaghya ritual performed in the once-abandoned Vichar Nag shrine here on a recent Saturday night…
Source: www.washingtonpost.com UNITED STATES, June 6, 2010: In some ways, more interfaith marriage is good for civic life. Such unions bring extended families from diverse backgrounds into close contact. There is nothing like marriage between different groups to make society more integrated and more tolerant. As recent research by Harvard Professor Robert Putnam has shown, the more Americans get to…
Source: Religion News Service UNITED STATES, July 10, 2010: The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court prohibiting “material support” for accused terrorist groups continues to reverberate. The law prohibits providing cash and weapons to terrorist groups, but also training in how to hold elections and peacefully resolve conflict. Civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, argued the law…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com God is subtle. Albert Einstein
Source: HPI KAPAA, HI, USA: Some readers of HPI have expressed their opinions about the editorial comment on “Proposing Tamil as Court Language”, published on yesterday’s HPI. We think it merits a clarification: The information we were trying to share is that there is a politically driven movement to replace all other languages in use in Tamil Nadu with Tamil…