Source: www.hafsite.org CHICAGO, U.S.A. November 19, 2009: The Hindu American Foundation has challenged the interpretation of the ancient Hindu epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, by Professor Wendy Doniger, Professor of Religion at the University of Chicago, in her most recent book called ‘The Hindu: An Alternative History’. As an academic and apparent non-believer, Professor Doniger, according to the foundation has…
Source: www.thejakartapost.com YOGYAKAKARTA, INDONESIA, December 24, 2009: The Yogyakarta Prehistoric Legacy Conservation Center has found a Ganesha statue and Siva linga-yoni structures at the site of a newly discovered structure believed to be part of an ancient temple. Head of the center’s protection working group Indung Panca Putra said the findings led the excavation team to conclude that the site,…
Source: www.guardian.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, December 22, 2009: In a personal piece that might voice the silent inner struggle of many, Neel Mukherjee expresses his inner doubts about eating meat, and a few enlightening milestones of his inquiry into the matter. Having grown up in India in a family who could not afford to buy meat very often, meat eating was…
Source: pib.nic.in INDIA, January 6, 2010: A Japanese delegation led by Mr. Kazuhiro Haraguchi, Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications today met Union Minister for New & Renewable Energy, Dr. Farooq Abdullah. The meeting discussed various aspects of cooperation between the two countries in the field of renewable energy. The two sides decided to jointly develop one city in India…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com The Eternal Religion, the religion of the rishis, has been in existence from time immemorial and will exist eternally. There exists in this Sanatana Dharma all forms of worship–worship of God with form and worship of the impersonal Deity as well. It contains all paths–the path of knowledge, the path of devotion and so on. Other forms of…
Source: www.sindhtoday.net JAKARTA, INDONESIA, January 7, 2010: Archaeologists have found a statue of Nandi, the sacred bull that carried the Hindu God Shiva, among the ruins of what is believed to be an ancient temple at an excavation site in Yogyakarta in Indonesia. Previous discoveries at the site, which is located on the Indonesian Islamic University campus, include a statue…
Source: www.hafsite.org CHICAGO, U.S.A. November 19, 2009: The Hindu American Foundation has challenged the interpretation of the ancient Hindu epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, by Professor Wendy Doniger, Professor of Religion at the University of Chicago, in her most recent book called ‘The Hindu: An Alternative History’. As an academic and apparent non-believer, Professor Doniger, according to the foundation has…
Source: www.youtube.com PARIS, FRANCE, January 2010: Established in 1985 in the cramped quarters of a former restaurant kitchen; the Sri Manicka Vinayaka Alayam is the most well known of more than one dozen Hindu temples in France. This temple sponsors the annual “Fete de Ganesh” parade through the streets of Paris at Ganesha Chaturthi time. To view a well done…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com As a dream leads only to waking up, television leads only to turning it off. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, in his book, Living with Siva
Source: www.hafsite.org CHICAGO, U.S.A. November 19, 2009: The Hindu American Foundation has challenged the interpretation of the ancient Hindu epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, by Professor Wendy Doniger, Professor of Religion at the University of Chicago, in her most recent book called ‘The Hindu: An Alternative History’. As an academic and apparent non-believer, Professor Doniger, according to the foundation has…