Source: beta.thehindu.com TIRUVANNAMALAI, INDIA, September 13, 2009: Students of Archakar Training Schools which were formed by the State government at 6 famous temples in the State, to train candidates from across castes in the archakar profession, have formed the Tamil Nadu Government Archakar Training Students Association, and decided to demand the government the kind of employment they aspired for. The…
Source: www.nytimes.com MERCED, CALIFORNIA, September 20, 2009: At Mercy Medical Center in Merced, where roughly four patients a day are Hmong from northern Laos, healing includes more than IV drips, syringes and blood glucose monitors. Because many Hmong rely on their spiritual beliefs to get them through illnesses, the hospital’s new Hmong shaman policy, the country’s first, formally recognizes the…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com As to a mountain that’s enflamed, deer and birds do not resort–so, with knowers of God, sins find no shelter. Krishna Yajur Veda, Maitreya Upanishads 6.18
Source: www.hindustantimes.com KERALA, INDIA, September 29, 2009: A rock engraving, indicating clear remnants of Harappan culture, has been found in the Edakkal caves in neighboring Wayanad district, linking the Indus Valley civilization with South India. “There had been indications of remnants akin to the Indus Valley civilization in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, but these new findings give credence to the…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, September 27, 2009: In India’s remote north-east, the people of the state of Bihar have devised a novel and environmentally friendly way to cremate their dead. Where traditionally only the wood from a mango tree was used to fuel the funeral fire in this part of India, now people are making do with cow dung as…
Source: www.pib.nic.in HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS, September 24, 2009: The third regional “Mini-Pravasi Bharatiya Divas” was held in Hague to bring together members of the Indian Diaspora in Europe. It seeked a common platform to discuss their role in enhancing Indo-European cooperation in the fields of culture, heritage and tradition and explore the Indo-European Trade and Investment opportunities. The event was…
Source: www.hindustantimes.com VARANASI, INDIA, September 23, 2009: The likely successor to the Shankaracharya of northern and western India is very angry at popular web portal YouTube showing video clips of two ‘fake’ Shankaracharyas, one of who exhorts viewers to embrace Islam and the other explains why he converted to Islam. He is so enraged that he has decided to seek…
Source: www.thehindu.com VIJAYAWADA, INDIA, September 12, 2009: Katragadda Ravi is on a mission to promote the cultivation and use of organic brown rice in India, as one step towards encouraging the use of healthy foods. Mr. Ravi, a software engineer, returned from the US over three years ago to join his father, K. Ramesh, and start the organic cultivation of…
Source: www.uwf.edu HPI note: Thought the link to Prof.M. Lal Goel’s homepage was correct, a reader pointed out she could not easily identify which of his essays were a review of Wendy Doniger’s book “The Hindus: An Alternative History.” The “source” above provided today is a direct link to that document.
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com O God of mercy who performs the dance of illimitable happiness in the hall of inconceivable intelligence! The Rig and the other Vedas are thundering forth in words, announcing to us that all are thy slaves, all things belong to thee, all actions are thine, that thou pervades everywhere, that this is thy nature. Such is the teaching…