Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com NAGAPATTINAM, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, October 28, 2009: For the first time in a hundred years, dalits of Chettipulam village stepped inside the local Shiva temple on Tuesday, in a historic moment brought about by government and political intervention. Escorted by revenue and police officers, nearly 70 dalits of the village situated near Vedaranyam in Nagapattinam district entered the…
Source: www.indiajournal.com LONDON, ENGLAND, October 15, 2009: A BAPS Children’s Forum of the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Neasden here has been conferred this year’s prestigious Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for Greater London, Sir David Brewer, and the Deputy Lieutenant Mei Sim Lai visited the temple and presented the award. Lord Lieutenant Brewer said the Forum deserved…
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, October 27, 2009: People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming. In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Consistency is the key to the conquest of karma. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Sitting in a state of meditation, you must be more alive and alert than a tightrope walker suspended without a net on a taut cable three hundred feet above the surface of the Earth. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
Source: sify.com TAMIL NADU, INDIA, October 26, 2009: A special wing of Tamil Nadu police has recovered a stolen emerald murti of Lord Shiva worth over US$10 million. “This emerald Deity is very precious one which could be valued around 500 million rupees in the market was stolen from Tiruturaipundi temple and yesterday a special team has arrested the main…
Source: Religion News Service UNITED STATES, October 24, 2009: The Department of Homeland Security has amended its uniform and grooming policies after a Sikh man lost his job for wearing a turban and refusing to shave. Federal standards had required security guards to be clean-shaven and to wear a specified uniform and hat, two things that conflict with Sikh requirements…
Source: www.swans.com INDIA, September 8, 2009: [HPI note: this is an opinion piece by Raju Peddada dealing with the serious side effects that unethical conversion has in Indian villages. ] I distinctly remember the smells and sounds of the remote south Indian villages. In those innocent years, you could hear mothers calling out to their kids to come home for…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 25, 2009: The festival of Poorvanchalis, Chhath was celebrated with much fervor in the city. The banks of the Yamuna were reverberating with devotional Bhojpuri folk songs on Saturday. Thousands of devotees thronged the ghats to offer prayers to the setting sun. After fasting the entire day, people offered Chhath Sandhya Arghya to the…
Source: www.mlive.com ALLENDALE, MICHIGAN, October 4, 2009: Tales of romance, war and salvation constitute a fraction of the dozens of ancient Indian epics explored in “Mystic India, Land of Color and Tradition: Folk Art and Miniature Paintings” opening Monday inside the art gallery of the Grand Valley State University of Michigan. The exhibit features more than 60 pieces of Indian…