Source: www.templeganesh.fr PARIS, FRANCE, April 18, 2010: On April 17 and 18, 2010 the new site of the Sri Manicka Vinayakar Alayam was consecrated with Mahakumbhabhishekam ceremonies. New deity statues, carved in Mahabalipuram, and a gold plated kodimaram were blessed with an inaugural puja. Despite its tiny size the Temple de Ganesh, as it is commonly known, has become the…
Source: www.vrg.org UNITED STATES, April 2010: In order to find an estimate of the number of younger “true” vegetarians in the United States, Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) commissioned Harris Interactive to conduct an online survey of eight to eighteen year olds. According to the poll, an estimated 1.4 million youth in the United States are vegetarian, while about three million…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Refuse to be miserable. Swami Swaroopananda, Chinmaya Mission, Australia
Source: www.bdonline.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, April 23, 2010: A British architect has been commissioned to design a Hindu temple in India in a style not used for more than 700 years. Adam Hardy, from Cardiff’s Welsh School of Architecture, believes he is the only person in the world with the knowledge to design in the style of the 12th century Hoysala…
Source: business.rediff.com MALAYSIA, April 19, 2010: A large-section of the diaspora in Malaysia is irked with a new visa ruling imposed by New Delhi, which bars tourist visa holders from re-entering India within two months of the last visit. The move prompted the mission Kuala Lumpur to take up the issue with the Indian government after India tightened its rules…
Source: www.bighospitality.co.uk LONDON, ENGLAND, April 21, 2010: The UK’s first fully vegetarian restaurant chain, and the first global chain to carbon footprint every menu item, is launching in London this summer with three central venues. Otarian, the brainchild of Australian environmentalist Radhika Oswal, will launch its first two sites in London in June, and two restaurants in New York next…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. A. Whitney Brown, American Humorist
Source: newsweek.washingtonpost.com UNITED STATES, April 21, 2010: Nearly 20 million people in the United States gather together routinely, fold their hands and utter the Hindu greeting of Namaste — the Divine in me bows to the same Divine in you. Then they close their eyes and focus their minds with chants of “Om,” the Hindu representation of the first and…
Source: HPI NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 18, 2010, By Rajiv Malik: In a unique, significant and unprecedented move a large number of leaders, religious and political activists, intellectuals and scholars of Sanatan Dharma and Arya Samaj from all over India gathered together in New Delhi’s prestigious FICCI auditorium on Saturday, April 17th, 2010 with the aim of strengthening Hinduism and…
Source: www.nytimes.com UNITED STATES, April 18, 2010: Hastings College of the Law, part of the University of California, rightly prohibits student organizations from discriminating. A Christian group that bars non-Christian and gay students sued the school for denying it funding and access to its facilities. The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in the case. It should rule in favor of…