Daily Inspiration
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached! Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
INDIA, January 12, 2010: Every year, India celebrates Swami Vivekananda’s birthday, January 12, 1863, as Youth Day. Swami Vivekananda exhorted the people of Bharat to “be proud to call yourself a Hindu. Have muscles of iron and a heart of steel. Serve the
Source: The influence, of course, of Swami Ramakrishna Paramhansa on Swami Vivekananda can not be exaggerated. It was he who realized Vivekananda’s potential, bestowing spiritual powers upon him so that he may spread his realizations world-wide and guide other disciples.Swami Vivekananda travelled all over India, and saw the true condition of people’s suffering under British rule. Vivekananda’s eloquent speeches, including…
Daily Inspiration
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Give me a few men and women who are pure and selfless, and I shall shake the world. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902).
First Solar Eclipse of 2010 Will Affect South India
Source: beta.thehindu.com INDIA, January 10, 2010: The first solar eclipse of the year will occur on January 15th and will be visible partially in major parts of India. People in South India will be the first to see the eclipse as its path traverses across the country before entering Bangladesh and Myanmar. Ajay Talwar of the Amateur Astronomers Association told…
First Solar Eclipse of 2010 Will Affect South India
Source: beta.thehindu.com INDIA, January 10, 2010: The first solar eclipse of the year will occur on January 15th and will be visible partially in major parts of India. People in South India will be the first to see the eclipse as its path traverses across the country before entering Bangladesh and Myanmar. Ajay Talwar of the Amateur Astronomers Association told…
Celebrating Swami Vivekananda
Source: www.telegraphindia.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 6, 2010: The Vivekananda Centre plans to invoke Swami Vivekananda’s teachings of social and cultural harmony in an effort to encourage students to help protect monuments. Swamiji’s birthday, January 12, will be celebrated as Heritage Day in educational institutions to attract students to conservation, human resource development ministry sources said. Last week, the University…
25,000 Indian-Origin British Doctors To Return To India
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 4, 2010: Nearly 25,000 British doctors of Indian origin are set to return to India within two to four years and some of them are “most likely to join the seven AIIMS-like institutions” proposed to be set up by the central government. “There are around 15,000 young Indian-origin doctors undergoing training in different parts…
A Professor With a Taste for Controversy, At the Expense of Truth
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…
Ancient Hindu Temples Unearthed in Indonesia
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,…
An Inner Moral Dilemma: To Eat or Not Eat Meat
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…