Source: www.nytimes.com ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, January 2, 2010: Researchers at the University of Aberdeen found that when people were asked to recall the past, their bodies leaned slightly backward. While fantasizing about the future, people made a two or three millimeter shift forward. Lynden K. Miles, one of the study’s conductors, said: “It was pleasing that we could take an abstract…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com The man who is kind and practices righteousness, who remains passive in the affairs of the world, who considers creatures of the world as his own self, he attains the immortal Being; the true God is ever with him. Saint Kabir (1440-1518)
Source: www.nytimes.com ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND< January 2, 2010: Researchers at the University of Aberdeen found that when people were asked to recall the past, their bodies leaned slightly backward. While fantasizing about the future, people made a two or three millimeter shift forward. Lynden K. Miles, one of the study's conductors, said: "It was pleasing that we could take an abstract…
Source: lite.epaper.timesofindia.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 18, 2010: Buddhist Lama and photographer: not the most common combination. American-born Nicholas Vreeland has been a monk for 25 years at Karnatakas Rato Dratsang monastery. He is showing 20 of his India photographs at India International Center Annex as part of the Photos for Rato exhibition from January 13 to 18, to help…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com At this time in the Kali Yuga, ignorance is equally distributed worldwide, and wisdom has become an endangered species. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
Source: beta.thehindu.com THANJAVUR, INDIA, January 21, 2010: The School Education Minister Thangam Thennarasu has called for a combined study and view of the four all stone temples built by Chola kings at Thanjavur, Darasuram, Thirubuvanam and Gangaikonda Cholapuram. Inaugurating a two-day seminar organised by the Archaeological Survey of India here to commemorate the 1000th year of Brahadeeswara temple, the Minister…
Source: beta.thehindu.com INDIA, January 20, 2010: The portals of Badrinath temple, situated in Garhwal Himalayas at an altitude of 10,278 ft, will be reopened on May 19. The date of the reopening was announced at Narendra Nagar palace by the Raj Purohit on the occasion of Basant Panchami. The portals of Badrinath shrine were closed for the winter period on…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com BEIJING, CHINA, January 26, 2010: China’s official media is promoting what it describes as the first pop singer who sings in Sanskrit. She is one of the singers being considered to sign at the inauguration of the World Expo in Shanghai next May. Sa Dingding, who won the BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music in the Asia…
Source: www.trinidadexpress.com TRINIDAD/TOBAGO, January 31, 2020 (with Paras Ramoutar, HPI Staff): A mobile mandir with a 7-foot Lord Hanuman forms part of the Lord Hanuman Yatra which is now circling Trinidad with over 200 vehicles. The project, organized by the Hindu Festival Society led by its president Tribhavan Seegobin and the El Socorro Hindu Mandir led by Sathyacharya Pundit Dr…