Indovation = India + Innovation

Source: schott.blogs.nytimes.com NEW YORK, USA, February 1, 2010: Innovation tailored to the demands and incomes of consumers in India is the new big trend in business. Global companies are now bending over backwards to innovate for India – there’s even a new term for it, “Indovation” – and the key theme is to skin prices down till they fit into…

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Featured Temples: Lord Murugan’s Abodes of Reunion Island

Source: www.clicanoo.com REUNION, January 20 2010: The Temple of Siva Soupramanien de Saint-Andre is located in the Petit Bazar neighborhood at 1360 Avenue Ile de France, in the very small island of Reunion, a French island of about 800,000 population located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 bkilometres (120 mi) southwest of Mauritius, the nearest island. The…

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Avatar Leads The Pack In Web Site’s Most Spiritual Movies

Source: Religion News Service U.S., January 22, 2010: Movies about aliens, air travel, cooking, and the war in Iraq were all among the most “spiritually literate” films of 2009, according to the Web site SpiritualityandPractice.com. Chief among them is “Avatar,” a movie where the Hindu concept of the same name is loosely used. Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, the Web…

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Daily Inspiration

Source: www.hinduismtoday.com If our senses conveyed the whole truth to us, we would see the Earth as rivers and glaciers of electrons, each speck of dust as a rolling mass of light.    Paramahansa Yogananda

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Official Aid to Kailas Mutt Trust

Source:¬†http://www.sakaaltimes.com/SakaalTimesBeta/20100119/5487093900448887642.htm NASHIK, INDIA, January 19, 2010: Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan has announced financial assistance of US$ 21,563 to city-based 100-year-old Kailas Mutt Trust to help in its efforts of boosting the Vedas and lauded the Mutt’s work in the field of social and cultural activities. Inaugurating a three-day All India Vedic Conference Monday morning, Chavan asked the Mutt’s Chief…

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Hindu Gods On U.S. Stamps

Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com WASHINGTON, USA, February 1, 2010: Hindu Gods have made their way into U.S. mail, with an Atlanta based company headed by an Indian American launching a series of legally valid custom-made postage stamps. The first of these 44 cent stamps featuring Sri Krishna, Shiva-Parvathi, Lakshmi, Lord Venkateshwara, Murugan, Vinayaka and Sai Baba were issued by usa-postage.com last month.…

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Massive Mela Procession In Haridwar

Source: epaper.mailtoday.in HARIDWAR, INDIA, February 1, 2020: Time came to a standstill in Haridwar on Saturday. Devotees waited for hours to witness the royal procession of sadhus, including ash-smeared Naga sanyasins. The peshwai, as the procession is called, began from Pandeywala area of the holy town at noon and concluded at Mayadevi temple of the Juna akhara around 9 pm.…

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Fervor In South Africa For The Hindu Festival Of Thaipusam

Source: www.lemonde.fr SOUTH AFRICA, February 1, 2010: Every tenth month of the Tamil lunar calendar (around January-February) during the full moon, the Tamil Hindus in Malaysia, South Africa and Mauritius, celebrate the festival of Thaipusam. As an offering, participants will pierce the skin of the back or face. By providing their physical suffering to the god Murugan, the faithful seek…

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Multifaceted Artist is No More; S. Rajam Passes Away

Source: tamil.galatta.com INDIA, February 2, 2010: Sundaram Rajam, a multifaceted artist that embodied South Indian culture in many forms, has passed away on January 29. His story began many decades ago. During the dawn of the 1930s, Papanasam Sivan, the classical Carnatic Music maestro and Thamizh Thyagaiah, then virtually unknown, relocated in search of greener pastures in Madras, the cultural…

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