Source: www.ddinews.gov.in HARIDWAR, INDIA, January 7, 2010: With millions of people expected to attend the Mahakumbh Mela at Haridwar, farmers in Uttarakhand are gearing up to meet the demand for flowers, which is expected to do a business of US$100 million during the nearly four-month period. Over sixty million people, including thousands from foreign countries, are expected to throng Haridwar…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, December 28, 2009: It’s tradition for newly-married British Asian women to live with their in-laws. For many this rite of passage can be tough. I’ve been living with my in-laws ever since I got married. Now, after 15 years, my husband and I have finally bought our own home. British Asians make up 6.5% of the…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com You have to believe in Gods to see them. Hopi Indian saying.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com INDIA, December 23, 2009: (by Nagesh Rao) “How is the US different from India?” Let us compare an American Christian wedding with an Indian Hindu wedding. If you have 200 or more guests, it is a big wedding in the US (of course, everyone has to RSVP if they wish to attend). In India, a wedding can have…
Source: www.guardian.co.uk LEICESTER, UNITED KINGDOM, January 2, 2009: Some time in the next five years Leicester will become the first English city where everyone is a member of some ethnic or religious minority. The schools are already there. By 2007, only 44% of pupils across the city were ethnically white. By 2015 at the latest, the adult population will be…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, December 30, 2009: A group of corporate workers in the Indian city of Mumbai have launched a no-tie campaign to save energy and protect the environment. Campaigners say not wearing a tie will make people feel cooler with less need to use air conditioners so extensively. Dhiraj Shrinivasan, co-founder of the “no Tie Campaign,” says the…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world. Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)
Source: www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn SAIGON, VIETNAM, January 2, 2009: The Archaeology Institute and the Khanh Hoa Museum have unearthed thousands of artifacts at the site of the ancient village of Vinh Yen in the south-central province. After preliminary studies, the archaeologists determined that the ancient inhabitants who left the artifacts lived 2,000-2,500 years ago during the end of the Neolithic period and…
Source: www.alaskadispatch.com ALASKA, U.S., December 22, 2009: Leela Subba was born in Bhutan, but now he works at the Burger King on Northern Lights in Anchorage, cooking burgers and fries to help pay the rent on the four-bedroom Midtown apartment he shares with his family. When Subba was a few years old, the Bhutanese government evicted his family and others…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, December 31, 2009: After the authorities had insisted that Allah in the Malay language refers only to the God in Islam, which could only be sued by Muslims, a court in Malaysia has ruled that other faiths have a constitutional right to use the word Allah to refer to God. Ruling on a lawsuit filed by…