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Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Only one task to do here: find out who you are. How do you find out who you are? Dive into silence.

Source: www.dallasnews.com [HPI note: Today’s edition of HPI brings two articles about the same subject: new curriculum standards approved by the Texas State Board of Education. The contrast between the first article (from a Texan newspaper) and the second one (from a UK newspaper) makes for an enlightening comparison.] TEXAS, UNITED STATES, May 21, 2010: The Texas State Board of…

Source: www.guardian.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, May 16, 2020: Cynthia Dunbar, a conservative Texas lawyer, does not have a high regard for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional, tyrannical and tools of perversion. Now Dunbar is on the brink of fulfilling a promise to change all that, or at least point Texas schools toward salvation. She is one of a…

Source: edition.cnn.com INDIA, May 17, 2010: Tens of thousands of Indian couples tied the knot on Sunday May 16, one of the luckiest days in the Hindu calendar. “There are 50,000 weddings happening today” in Mumbai alone, said wedding planner Jarret D’Abreo of Marry Me. “The wedding that we are working on has been booked eight months in advance,” explained…

Source: ricerca.repubblica.it BARI, ITALY, April 28, 2010: The coast of Torre a Mare, a few kilometers from Bari, was transformed to look like Mauritius, or maybe, with a stretch of the imagination, like India. A ceremony was done in the temple dedicated to Murugan, the Murugan Kovil of Bari Torre a Mare, by the Tamil Mauritians of Pugliese, organized by…

Source: www.hinduismtoday.com The older I get, the more Hindu I become.    V.S. Naipaul, expatriate Trinidadian novelist, now living in UK, widely regarded in English literary circles as the best living writer in the English language.

Source: picasaweb.google.com ATLANTA, GEORGIA, April 18, 2010: Sewa International USA successfully conducted the First National Bhutanese Refugee Empowerment Conference in Atlanta, GA, during April 17th-18th 2010. Over sixty delegates and over one hundred attendees came from all over USA to make this pioneering conference memorable. The delegates expressed appreciation for the efforts of the United States Government, United Nations Human…

Source: www.prlog.org GRAYSLAKE, ILLINOIS, May 14, 2010 – The Chicago Hinduism Summit’s success last month in bringing together over 200 individuals, leaders and organizations, to facilitate Hinduism learning has prompted spontaneous support for another Hinduism Summit in the Greater Chicago area. This Hinduism Summit (Hindu Dharma Sabha) will be held on June 5th at the Hindu Temple of Lake County.…

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com BIJAPUR, KARNATAKA, INDIA, May 7, 2010: These days, Sanskrit is no longer a forgotten tongue in daily lufe. There is talk of establishing a Sanskrit and Vedic university in the state. But off campus, right in the city, is a trader who uses the language for his day-to-day business. 3R Garments Shop in Bijapur city is owned by…

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, May 9, 2010: Researchers asked infants of various ages to choose between characters which they had seen behaving well or badly, and found they overwhelmingly favored the “good” characters. The research, which is being pioneered by a team of psychologists from the Infant Cognition Centre at Yale University, Connecticut, contradicts the belief promoted by psychologists such…