Source: www.nytimes.com YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA, February 24, 2010: ILast August when the private Islamic University of Indonesia decided to build a library next to the mosque. In the two decades the university had occupied its 79-acre campus outside Yogyakarta, no temple had ever been found. But chances were high that they were around. By Dec. 11, a construction crew had already…
Source: www.nytimes.com SINGAPORE, February 3, 2010: The Ramayana has been one of the great epic poems of Indian culture for centuries. It has also captured the imagination of many other cultures beyond its origins in India. In Southeast Asia, scenes from the Ramayana can be found in places ranging from Prambanan, a 9th-century Hindu temple compound in Yogyakarta in central…
Source: www.thehimalayantimes.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, February 21, 2010: The Free Students’ Union (FSU), Balmiki Campus, today demanded that Nepal be declared a Hindu state. Issuing a press statement, FSU demanded that ancient religions, norms and values of the Nepali society be preserved. “We’ll not be able to accept secular state,” the statement said, adding that the culture of the country is…
Source: www.expressbuzz.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 17, 2010: The Supreme Court has directed all the State Governments and Union Territories to come out with a clear policy with regard to the demolition or regularization or relocation of religious structures in public places, public parks, play grounds, roads, etc within six weeks. A Bench comprising Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice K.…
Source: www.dailypioneer.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 17, 2010: The river Yamuna, having been declared dead with its water all poisonous from 22 drains from all over Delhi feeding 800 million gallons of sewage into it per day, can kill a healthy human being. It’s the rapid industrialization that is helping the inevitable pollute to the river, pointed out Robert Oates,…
Source: www.expressbuzz.com INDIA, February 16, 2010: In 1997 M.D. Muthukumaraswamy, along with 15 others including Komal Kothari, the then Director of Rajasthan Institute of Folklore started the National Folklore Support Centre (NFSC), when they observed that the country lacked a national level organization for folklore. “We knew everything about European folklore and arts but had no knowledge about our own…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Whether Hindu or Muslim or Christian, whoever tries to convert, it’s wrong, not good. Dalai Lama, speaking at the Kumbha Mela
Source: www.thejakartapost.com JAKARTA, INDONESIA, February 17, 2010: Thousands of people across Bali have been busy making the giant ogoh-ogoh effigies in preparation for the celebrations of the upcoming Caka Hindu New Year 1932, popularly known as Nyepi, or the Day of Silence. The event falls on March 16. Local resident Wayan Chandra said making the ogoh-ogoh helps strengthen communal relation…
Source: Press Release BALI, INDONESIA, February 2010: Bali-India Foundation will be organizing the second International Bali-India Yoga Festival from 3-10 March, 2010. The theme of the festival is ‘Yoga & Global Warming’. Bali, which has an ancestral relationship with India, shares a great concern about Global Warming. Bali, the Island of the Gods, where the sage Markandeya meditated and taught…
Source: www.indianweekender.co.nz NEW ZEALAND, February 13, 2010: The Sri Balaji Temple Project which is the first of its kind in New Zealand held its first prayers and conducted the Sudharsana Homan on 23rd January, 2010 at the Phoenix Hall in Hamilton. Secretary Bala Bhaskar Tikkisetty welcomed the hundreds of devotees present. The Maha Sudharsana Homan, is performed for Lord Vishnu’s…