Source: www.mandir.org UNITED KINGDOM, April 11, 2010: BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) observed International Women’s Day 2010 in the UK with a month-long initiative, culminating on the weekend of 10-11 April with an inspirational conference entitled Celebrating Women: Past, Present & Future. The key objective of the conference was to celebrate the achievements of women and inspire them to fulfill their…
Source: www.indianexpress.com HARDWAR, INDIA, April 4, 2010: The eleven-volume “Encyclopedia of Hinduism” was launched in a grand ceremony at the Kumbha Mela. The ambitious project was conceptualized by Swami Chidanand Saraswati over two decades ago and some 10,000 people are believed to have pitched in, directly or indirectly, towards completion of this magnum opus. L. K. Advani, who last week…
Source: www.onlineprnews.com GANDHINAGAR, INDIA, April 8, 2010: The Sat-Chit-Anand Water Show was inaugurated with a unique multi-media water extravaganza at Swaminarayan Akshardham in Gandhinagar, India on April 3. The Sat-Chit-Anand Water Show has been conceptualized and realized by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha. This first of its kind spiritual water show, including a 60 ft wide water screen, reveals the ancient…
Source: www2.macleans.ca GHENT, BELGIUM, March 30, 2010: Last May the townsfolk of Ghent, a Flemish burg of some 250,000, gathered outside a centuries-old slaughterhouse in the town’s historic core to sample soy fritters and pick up a map of local vegetarian eateries. This was Ghent’s inaugural “Donderdag Veggiedag” –Thursday Veggieday, literally–a weekly holiday from the evils of beef, fish, pork…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com The test of a man is how much he can bear and how much he can share and how soon he confesses a mistake and makes amends for it. Dada J.P. Vaswani
Source: www.straitstimes.com SINGAPORE, April 11, 2020: The priest stood atop the temple draped in red. As he prayed, the thousands who gathered below him fell into an expectant hush. “Let us now all receive the blessings of the Goddess Sri Mariamman!” the priest, Sri Siva Balachandra Sivachariar, cried out. “For world peace, Singapore’s prosperity, and everyone’s well-being!” It was a…
Source: hafsite.org UNITED STATES, April 2010: “Why do they have to stick ham on even a salad?!” lamented Ishani Mehta, daughter of Hindu American Foundation (HAF) supporters Bijal and Aseem Mehta, over the fact that healthy, vegetarian options were not available daily at her school cafeteria. Well, next week is your chance to speak up by urging your congressional representative…
Source: well.blogs.nytimes.com UNITED STATES, April 5, 2010: The surprising results new study find that today’s parents are spending far more time with their families than their parents’ generation did. The study, by two economists at the University of California, San Diego, analyzes a dozen surveys of how Americans say they use their time, taken at different periods from 1965 to…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com You don’t stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing. Anonymous
Source: www.thehindu.com INDIA, April 7, 2010: A fragmentary pottery inscription was found during excavations conducted by the Thai Fine Arts at Phu Khao Thong in Thailand. What makes the discovery exciting is that the two symbols on the pottery resemble the Indus script, and even the sequence of the pair can be found in the Indus texts, especially those from…