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: 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…
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…
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…
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…
Source: HPI KAUAI, HAWAII, January 24, 2010: Hinduism Today is planning an article on how to deal with the cold winter months in North America. How do Hindus deal with what is commonly called “cabin fever,” being stuck inside for weeks or months on end by cold, wind and snow? How can Hindu philosophy help us carry on work and…
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
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…
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…