Source: www.thejakartapost.com KLUNGKUNG, BALI, January 7, 2010: Klungkung is often described as the birthplace of Balinese culture because it was here that Javanese Hindus relocated after the end of the Majapahit kingdom 700 years ago, recreating classical Hinduism on the island. In Klungkung a new performing, visual arts center and contemporary art museum is being built. The Arts Monument, or…
Source: www.ddinews.gov.in HARIDWAR, INDIA, January 12, 2010: Thousands of devotees arrived in Haridwar to celebrate the first Kumbh Mela of the century this Thursday. On this day, over 25,000 are expected to take a dip in the river Ganga on the auspicious occasion of ‘Makar Sankranti’- the day marking the decline of winter. Eighty thousand people have already reached the…
Source: beta.thehindu.com SABARIMALA (PATHANAMTHITTA), INDIA, January 14, 2010: Millions of devotees waiting anxiously for hours to witness the celestial light, shouted in joy and thanksgiving when the Makara Jyothi appeared thrice on the horizon at the Sabarimala temple here Thursday evening. The celestial light was seen after 6:40 p.m. Sighting of the celestial light on the horizon is considered most…
Source: sify.com UTTARAKHAND, INDIA, January 14, 2010: The hill state of Uttarakhand is promoting the temple towns of Hardwar and Rishikesh as the biggest urban spiritual tourism destinations in the world on the strength of the Kumbh Mela. The government has sanctioned infrastructure and town planning projects worth US$120 million for the mela, which begins Jan 14. “We are making…
Source: www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, USA, January 10, 2010: Rich in natural beauty and cultural splendors, Sri Lanka, for a quarter century, seems to have been plagued by misfortune, including a brutal civil war between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority. Hopefully, last May, the conflict finally ended, ushering in a more peaceful era for this magnificent island. With a population…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can do without. American philosopher Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Source:¬†http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=327&page=27 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 poor, needy and ignorant like your brothers and sisters”. When asked by youth for knowledge from…
Source: www.trinidadexpress.com TRINIDAD-TOBAGO, January 12, 2020: The Hindu Festivals Society will host its second annual Makar Sankranti (also called Pongal) celebrations on Thursday. All are invited to join the HFS in its ‘Rudra Gita Gyan Yagna’ as members celebrate India’s biggest and most popular festival, Makar Sankranti. Rituals take place at the HFS Water Festivals Centre, Persad Drive, Los Iros…
Source: www.tabletmag.com LOS ANGELES, USA, January 5, 2009: Yoga, with its meditation, with its mysterious secrets and ties to Hinduism and Buddhism, isn’t just a physiological practice; it’s a spiritual one. And I am a Modern Orthodox Jew. By practicing yoga, I’m now forced to wonder, am I practicing a religion outside my own? Am I sinning before God? When…
Source: www.guardian.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, January 11, 2010: My engagement present was a book of pocket psalms, with yellow highlighter streaked through passages that warned of the eternal damnation that non-believers face. It was presented to me in the small, dark room of a village house on the outskirts of Nairobi by my future father-in-law, a lay preacher. I had gone…