Source: www.petalsinthedust.com CALIFORNIA, USA, April 4, 2010: Petals in the Dust: India’s Missing Girls is a documentary exploring why an estimated 50 million girls have been eliminated from India’s population in the last century. The gender ratio of newborns worldwide is 1.05 boys for each girl, which is exactly the ratio for the United States, Argentina and France, for example.…
Source: Press Release SAN FRANCISCO, CA, April 4, 2010: The San Francisco Bay Area’s Pallavita company presents VivRti, a two day festival featuring performances for young musicians and those interested in Karnatik devotional music by Vidwan TM Krishna.Over 100 performers will be there, with vocal ensembles, solo performances, and accompaniments by talented young musicians. The event happens on April 10th…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Alas for me, I cannot rest. This floating bubble, Earth. Its hollow form, its hollow name, its hollow death and birth. For me is nothing. How I long to get beyond the crust of name and form! Ah, open the gates; to me they open must. Open the gates of Light, O Mother to me, Thy tired son.…
Source: www.fijitimes.com SUVA, FIJI, April 3, 2010: South Indians jam-packed the National Stadium in Suva yesterday to attend the inaugural 84th convention of one of the biggest Hindu religious and charitable organisations in Fiji. The ‘Then India Sanmarga Ikya Sangam (TISI Sangam) started its four-day convention with cultural dance items. TISI Sangam Convention chairman Sadasivan Naicker said an estimated 12,000…
Source: www.timesnow.tv HARIDWAR, INDIA, March 30, 2010: Nearly 2.5 million pilgrims and sadhus took a holy dip in the river Ganga on the occasion of third royal bath of the ongoing Mahakumbh in Haridwar on Tuesday (March 30). Twenty-eight representative Sadhus and seers, belonging to seven sanyasi (Shaiv) akharas (Hindu orders) of Juna, Niranjani, Atal, Aahwan, Anand, Mahanirvani and Agni…
Source: www.youtube.com UNITED STATES, March 10, 2010: [HPI note: Alamed by the eccentricities and idiosyncrasies of some American states’ decisions about the school curriculum, many educators support federal standards for education. It was an elusive goal, however, during the last administration, but the Obama White House has carefully crafted a compromise for english and math that many states will adopt,…
Source: newsweek.washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON D.C., March 2010, (by Dr. Aseem Shukla): Article 18 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR), is often held up as the rationale–the green light for proselytization. That every individual “has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone…
Source: HPI KAPAA, HAWAII, USA, April 1, 2010: After several weeks of intense negotiations, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation announced today that it has acquired Hinduism Today Magazine, whose editorial staff produces Hindu Press International. In a $10.8 million deal, the purchase of Hinduism Today represents the conservative media magnate’s first foray into Eastern religious news media. Paramacharya Palaniswami, the magazine’s…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountaintop, then you shall begin to climb. And when the Earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. Should we all confess our sins to one another, we would all laugh at one another for our lack…
Source: HPI KAPAA, HAWAII, USA, April 1, 2010: After several weeks of intense negotiations, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation announced today that it has acquired Hinduism Today Magazine, whose editorial staff produces Hindu Press International. In a $10.8 million deal, the purchase of Hinduism Today represents the conservative media magnate’s first foray into Eastern religious news media. Paramacharya Palaniswami, the magazine’s…