Source: www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, U.S., January 23, 2010: Kevin Salwen, a writer and entrepreneur in Atlanta, was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Hannah, back from a sleepover in 2006. While waiting at a traffic light, they saw a black Mercedes coupe on one side and a homeless man begging for food on the other. “Dad, if that man had a less…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com “I think it would be a good idea.” Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) when asked what he thought of Western civilization
Source: sify.com THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, February 28, 2010: More than three million women devotees lit earthen kilns to cook rice and jaggery as offering for the presiding deity of Attukal Bhagavathi temple here Sunday on the occasion of Pongala festival. The ritual started after the chief priest lit a hearth with fire brought from the sanctum sanctorum of the temple. The…
Source: www2.macleans.ca VANCOUVER, February 22, 2010: Two years ago in Vancouver, Carolye Kuchta’s six-year-old daughter Celia declared that she would no longer eat meat; her son had once made the same adamant pronouncement. Kuchta, a meat-eater, would never force her kids to eat meat but admits she had misgivings about some imagined potential health risks of a meatless diet, and…
Source: www.philly.com PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, February 18, 2010: After viewing some disturbing PETA videos, Kelsey O’Callaghan found herself thinking, really thinking, about where meat comes from. While not completely vegan, O’Callaghan has fully embraced vegetarianism. Miffed that “there isn’t even a vegetarian chef on the tv’s Food Network,” O’Callaghan figured she’d get a jump on her career, and The Veggie Chef…
Source: spreadsheets.google.com LANHAM, MARYLAND, March 1, 2010: The Inaugural Hindu American Seva Charities Summit will take place from March 27-28, 2010 in Lanham, Maryland. Saturday’s agenda will begin with a reception and dinner beginning at 6:00 p.m. Invitees include Congressmen and prominent Indian American public officials. Sunday’s program will take place at the Sri Siva Vishnu Temple in Lanham and…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com I see God walking in every human form. When I meet different people, I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.” Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886), guru of Swami Vivekananda
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com What you have is His gift to you, and what you do with what you have is your gift to Him. Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993)
Source: http://www.zo-online.ch DURNTEN, SWITZERLAND, February 24, 2010: The opening ceremony of the new premises of the Sri Vishnu Thurkkai Amman Temple took place on January 27th. The temple, formerly located in Adliswil, was moved 40 kilometers to a building located in pasture land at Edikerstrasse 24 in Durnten. More than 100 devotees attended the morning opening ceremony. Water from the…
Source: http://www.zo-online.ch/article24077/ressorts/hinwil/duernten/duernten-hat-einen-hindu-tempel.htm DURNTEN, SWITZERLAND, February 24, 2010: The opening ceremony of the new premises of the Sri Vishnu Thurkkai Amman Temple took place on January 27th. The temple, formerly located in Adliswil, was moved 40 kilometers to a building located in pasture land at Edikerstrasse 24 in Durnten. More than 100 devotees attended the morning opening ceremony. Water from the…