Source: www.echo-news.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, May 3, 2010: A taste of India came to south Essex when more than 1,500 worshippers came to a Hindu festival. The miserable weather failed to dampen the spirits of the festival-goers who flocked to East Beach in Shoebury. They braved the wind and rain for the Purshottum Maas festival, where they enjoyed folk dancing, traditional…
Source: www.livemint.com HARIDWAR, INDIA, April 19, 2010: [HPI note: This is an article in two parts.] The advertisement, in Sanskrit, was small, tossed to the extreme right of the newspaper page: “Sanskrit-dwitiyarajbhashayuktam deshashya prathamrajyam Uttarakhandam” (Uttarakhand is India’s first state to have Sanskrit as its second official language). The language of ancient Indian religious texts and epics is being revived…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com In the garden of the soul, plant the seed of the Word (Lord’s Name). Water the soil with love and humility and reap the fruits of Divinity. Guru Granth Sahib
Source: religionclause.blogspot.com NEPAL, April 28, 2010: In Nepal, as law makers approach the May 28 deadline for completing a draft of a new constitution, tensions increase over whether the country will remain a secular state. In 2006, Parliament passed a resolution providing that the country would no longer formally be known as a Hindu nation. Last week, Christians rallied in…
Source: www.newsmaker.com.au MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, April 28, 2010: The first ever Hinduism Summit (Hindu Dharmasabha) in Australia, will be held on the auspicious occasion of Akshay Trutiya, 5112 ( May 16, 2010) at the Shirdi Sai Baba Temple, Camberwell, Melbourne. The Hinduism Summit will be held by the Forum for Hindu Awakening (FHA) and Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS), with support from…
Source: www.hindustantimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 25, 2010: As a first step in implementation of the amended Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act 2010, the government has come up with draft rules for the proposed National Monument Authority. The proposed body will work towards categorization and classification of monuments protected by the ASI. It would also be the…
Source: www.cnn.com UNITED STATES July 1, 2009: Study shows a whopping two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese, and obesity rates for children are at or above 30 percent in 30 states. The percentage of adults classified as obese went up in 23 states, but Mississippi, with 32.5 percent, stayed atop the latest annual rankings by the Robert Wood…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com A journalist dreamed that he interviewed God and asked Him what surprised Him most about people. God answered, “That they get bored being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then later long to be children again. That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.”
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com If it seems strange to you that the old Indian philosophers should have known more about the soul than Greek or medieval or modern philosophers, let us remember that however much the telescopes for observing the stars of heaven have been improved, the observatories of the soul have remained much the same. Friedrich Maximilian Mueller (1823-1900), German philologist…
Source: newsweek.washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON, DC, May 3, 2010: On April 18, Washington Post’s blog On Faith posted an opinion piece by Aseem Shukla on yoga’s American popularity and Hindu heritage. On April 23, On Faith panelist Deepak Chopra responded. The impromptu debate has drawn hundreds of comments from readers and generated a great deal of discussion in the wider Hindu community.…