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…
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: http://beta.thehindu.com/arts/article108634.ece KERALA, INDIA, February 24, 2010: Kadavallur is a small village in Thrissur district of Kerala, where an age old Sri Rama temple shines as a perfect example of all traditions of Kerala. The existence of this temple the 10th-11th century is attested by a Vattezhuthu record inscribed on a stone on the base of the enclosure. Like all…