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Source: www.shreedarshan.com September 21, 2009: We offer the above URL with “no comment.”

Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Youth are blamed for being careless and useless, but in reality I feel that they are cared for less and are used less, and as a result the costliest resources of the society are getting wasted.    Brahmachari Atma Chaitanya of Chinmaya Mission, Kerala

Source: www.google.com SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA, September 18, 2009: Six Malaysian Muslims have been charged with sedition for parading the severed head of a cow–the holiest animal in Hinduism–to protest the planned construction of a Hindu temple. The men were charged Wednesday in a district court in Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor state, where they had marched with the cow…

Source: newsweek.washingtonpost.com TEXAS, September 1, 2009: (HPI note: The Washington Post invited Aseem Shukla to offer a Hindu point of view on the curriculum revision now under way in Texas.) Post introduction: “The Texas Board of Education, the nation’s second largest purchaser of public school textbooks, is revising its K-12 social studies curriculum and deciding how to characterize religion’s influence…

Source: www.clicanoo.com REUNION, September 7, 2009: The Hindu temple of Colosse near St. Andre on Reunion Island has celebrated its kumbhabhishekam. A thousand worshippers attended the three-day consecration organized by the Pandialee Association. Many dignitaries were present for the big day, including the Consul of India (RS Badwal), the mayor of Saint-Andre (Eric Fruteau), the president of the Federation of…

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, September 8, 2009: At a hearing of a writ petition on Monday, a two-member bench of the AP High Court directed authorities to maintain status quo on government funds for building or repairing churches. The petition, filed by Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary, complained that the state government was engaging itself in the promotion of a religion…

Source: www.chron.com AUSTIN, TEXAS, September 18, 2009: Christmas will stay in Texas textbooks, State Board of Education members said Thursday while reviewing early recommendations for new social studies standards. The board will not approve the new curriculum standards for public schools until next year, but wanted to assure constituents they will not accept a recommendation to yank Christmas. “We have…

Source: www.laestrella.com.pa PANAMA, September 6, 2009: A millennial celebration, full of color and traditions, is remembered every year by about three thousand Hindus living in Panama, who first came as nineteenth century immigrants. This year was the first time the Hindu temple celebrated the Ganesh festival with a five foot tall clay statue that was brought from India. The statue,…

Source: beta.thehindu.com CHENNAI, INDIA, September 7, 2009: This long article, excerpted from the valedictory address by Professor K. N. Panikkar at the Silver Jubilee celebration of the Department of Christian Studies, University of Madras, on September 4, discusses the different nature of the public sphere in India as compared with Europe, and the ways in which colonialism and other historical…

Source: www.thehindu.com VIJAYAWADA, INDIA, September 12, 2009: Prathishta Arts Association, a Hyderabad-based organization, is conducting “Bhavani Bhuvana Vijaya Mahosthavam” at Swaraj Maidan here as part of Dasara festivities from September 19 to 29 by installing a 45-feet panchaloha statue of Goddess Kanakadurga. P. Madhusudhan, founder and secretary of the association, said Friday that the statue was made at an estimated…