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: 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: 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…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk LONDON, UK, October 28, 2009: An extract found in the bright yellow curry spice turmeric can kill off cancer cells, scientists have shown. The chemical — curcumin — has long been thought to have healing powers and is already being tested as a treatment for arthritis and even dementia. Now tests by a team at the Cork Cancer…
Source: www.wmf.org KAUAI, HI, USA, October 27, 2009: The article “Forgetting Hinduism When Preserving the Past,” from the October 24th edition of HPI, incorrectly listed the monuments on Indian soil that the World Monuments Foundation is protecting. The main point of the article, however, remains unchanged: none of the selected monuments in India are relevant to Hinduism. The correct list…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages. India was the mother of our philosophy, of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in Christianity… of self-government and democracy. In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all. Will Durant, American Historian (1885-1981)
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com John F. Kennedy loved a little proverb he thought was Irish, but actually came from the Indian epic Ramayana: There are three things which are real–God, human folly and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension, so we must do what we can with the third.
Source: blog.baliwww.com BALI, October 14, 2009: Balinese Hindus all over the country celebrated Galungan, a holyday to commemorate the victory of dharma over adharma. This holyday is considered the pinnacle of Balinese Hindus’ view of their struggle to subdue negative forces called sad ripu (six enemies of the within). They are kama (lust), loba (greed), krodha (anger), mada (drunkeness), moha…