Source: www.voxy.co.nz NEW ZEALAND, March 5, 2010: To celebrate the 2010 Race Relations Day and bring families and communities together, the Hindu Youth Foundation of New Zealand is organizing a Family Fun Day on Sunday 21st of March at the Hindu Heritage Centre. Race Relations Day is a major event in the Human Rights Commission’s calendar and is marked in…
Source: www.arshavidya.in INDIA, February 10, 2010: Arsha Vidya Gurukulam is pleased to announce a long term course in Vedanta, Sanskrit and allied subjects for a period of three years beginning in the last week of July 2010. Students will be selected from the 3-month Bhagavad Gita camp from April 20, 2010 – July 20, 2010 by Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life–it will be the solace of my death. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher and writer, the first Western philosopher to have access to translations of material from India.
Source: homespun.si.edu WASHINGTON D.C., March 2, 2010: Over the past decade, a boom happened for Indian-Americans in highly respected positions in the private and public sectors. These individuals have been vocal about their heritage, backgrounds and agendas. The world has started to notice, and so has the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. With a growing population of Indian-Americans in the…
Source: hscnet.org NEW YORK, NEW YORK, February 13, 2010: Members of the Hindu Students Council (HSC), Hindu American Seva Charities, Hindu Collective Initiative of North America as well as others joined members of the Sikh, Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities in a dialogue on America’s National Security and its impact on various religious groups, especially minorities. While such dialogues have…
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…