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…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com To define God–is grinding what is already ground; for He is the only being we know. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
Source: in.biz.yahoo.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 30, 2009: With a turnaround in the air, fund managers have regained the confidence to return to their annual vacation schedule, unlike last year when the insecurity in the financial sector left them stuck to their seats. There is a difference, though. The honchos are not reaching for their bermuda shorts and heading south…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com SURAT, GUJARAT, INDIA, December 22, 2009: In its offensive against conversion of tribals to Christianity, Maharashtra-based Shree Sampraday sect claimed to have reconverted 1,747 people back to Hinduism in Surat on Monday. The Surat district magistrate, however, took note of the organizers’ failure to seek permission for reconversion as stipulated in the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2003.…