ASSAM, INDIA, June 26, 2022 (Indian Express): People in India’s northeastern states of Assam began celebrations for a spring festival meant to bring in an auspicious season filled with abundant crops and good health. Every year the community celebrates the festival to please a Deity of wealth and ask for good rains and a good harvest. Colorful slide show at…
AFGHANISTAN, June 26, 2022 (Mundigak): There is very little material on Afghan Sikh history or its origin in the public domain. Roger Ballard (2011) stated that Afghan Sikhs are “likely to be made up of those members of the indigenous population who resisted the process of conversion from Buddhism to Islam which took place in this area between the ninth…
AUSTRALIA, June 22, 2022 (The London Economic): The Parliament of Victoria, Australia’s second-most populous state, passed laws late on Tuesday that set penalties of US$15,150 and 12 months in prison for displaying the Nazi swastika, or Hakenkreuz (“hooked cross”). Dvir Abramovich, chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission, which fights antisemitism, said on Wednesday he expects Australia’s most populous state, New South…
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, June 22, 2022 (Hindu American Foundation): Following testimony at yesterday’s Senate Public Safety Committee hearing at the California statehouse, bill AB2282 passed out of committee with a 4-0 vote, bringing the decriminalization of the swastika and the formal recognition of the Nazi emblem as a hakenkreuz (hooked cross), its correct historical name, one step closer into law. Testifying…
PADUA, ITALY, June 21, 2022 (Facebook, translated from Italian of original source): There is the fire that destroys, which manifests itself in the form of fire, such as the one that on the night between 4 and 5 November 2021, which devastated the Hindu temple Shree Salasar Mandir, a place of worship so loved by the Hindus of Padua province…
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, June 18, 2022 (Xinhua): At least two civilians were killed and three security forces wounded on Saturday after three explosions hit a Sikh-Hindu temple in Police District 4 in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, according to multiple sources. “We heard a huge blast which struck the gate of a temple in Kart-e-Parwan neighborhood at around 6 a.m. local time.…
TAMIL NADU, INDIA, June 19, 2022 (The Hindu): Major temples in the state are set to become disabled and elderly-friendly soon. They will have facilities such as wooden ramps and wheelchair stations. Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) P.K. Sekarbabu said not just 47 major temples but all 509 class II temples would have these facilities. “This is…
BERLIN, GERMANY, June 19, 2022 (Facebook): A charming news video in German has been released on the nearly completed Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple Berlin. The temple’s Facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/SGHTBERLIN/ And the news video posted here: https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=677137700244002&_rdr
CALIFORNIA, June 19, 2022 (Press Release): For a long time, many key Hindu texts have been kept in Western libraries, in some cases cut off from Vedic researchers who had need of them, and were instead given to Western researchers, some of whom misused the texts to push inaccuracies about Hinduism. To resolve this, Hindus launched the Smaracaya digital library,…
TRINIDAD/TOBAGO, June 17, 2022 (for HPI, by Paras Ramoutar): Yoga has become global and it has reincarnated in various forms for business and commerce, according to outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago, Shri Arun Kumar Sahu. He underlined this point while inaugurating the International Day of Yoga 2022, with the theme, “Yoga for Wellbeing” at the Mahatma Gandhi…