Source: www.indopia.in CHENNAI, INDIA, September 15, 2009: (HPI Note: This short report, the first we have of the court action, does not present the side of the temple priests who appealed the takeover.) The Madras High Court today upheld a 1987 Tamil Nadu government order appointing an Executive Officer (EO) for managing the endowments and vast immovable property of the…
Source: www.ndtv.com BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, September 13, 2009: Human rights activists have appealed to the priests in Puri and the Orissa government to allow physically challenged devotees to enter the Jagannath temple on wheelchairs. The priests do not currently allow wheel chairs to enter the temple, possibly because of concerns about cleanliness: while ordinary devotees remove their shoes before entering the…
Source: www.expressbuzz.com CHENNAI, INDIA, August 25, 2009: Barack Obama may have been the only American president to refer to Hindus in his first presidential address. He could also be the first US President to call for Hindu participation in his advisory council. Yet, the concept of Indian Hindus in the US is largely confined to cow, caste and curry in…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com VADODARA, INDIA, August 27, 2009: The 161-year-old Dhundiraj Ganpati Mandir in the Wadi area is one of Gujarat’s oldest Ganesh temples and perhaps the only one made completely out of wood. The carvings on its wooden pillars are a must-see, as is the fountain in front of the Lord’s murti. However, the temple is struggling to survive and…
The Scottish Indian Arts Forum¬†Press Release EDINBURG, September 12, 2009: The Scottish Indian Arts Forum will celebrate the famous Indian Festival of Dusherra on Sunday, October 4, at Calton Hill, Edinburgh. The Ram Lila Parade will consist of horse-drawn chariots with Rama, Lakshman and Hanuman on one and Ravana on the other. There will also be colorful floats of Sita…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com The whole path is a total surrendering. All four sects of Hinduism meet in surrender, prapatti, to the Divine. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
Source: Source: Press RElease EDINBURG, September 12, 2009:The Scottish Indian Arts Forum will celebrate the famous Indian Festival of Dusherra on Sunday, October 4, at Calton Hill, Edinburgh. The Ram Lila Parade will consist of horse-drawn chariots with Rama, Lakshman and Hanuman on one and Ravana on the other. There will also be colorful floats of Sita in Ashok, Vatika,…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com VARANASI, INDIA, September 6, 2009: Satyanarain Chowdhary supervises his family’s business: running the world-famous cremation ground Manikarnika ghat. The businesslike Chowdhary seems miffed at allegations of extortion at the ghat, where victim’s families have to cough up anywhere between US$20 to US$2,000, depending on their financial status, for last rites. “It is merely a tax people have been…
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk UK, September 6, 2009: Humans may have been hardwired by evolutionary forces to believe in God, some scientists are suggesting. Far from being the result of poor education and childhood “indoctrination,” religious tendencies may have provided an evolutionary benefit by increasing the tendency of people to work together well, thus enhancing their ability to survive. Bruce Hood, a…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com In life, to handle yourself, use your head, but to handle others, use your heart. Swami Chinmayananda (1917-1993), writer, lecturer and Hindu renaissance founder of Chinmaya Mission International