Source: www.uwf.edu/lgoel FLORIDA, US, Septemeber 8, 2009: Wendy Doniger, a historian at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has outraged Hindus in the past. In a 2002 article, the BBC stated “Professor Wendy Doniger is known for being rude, crude and very lewd in the hallowed portals of Sanskrit Academics. All her special works have revolved around the subject of…
Source: www.dailygalaxy.com UNITED STATES, September 17, 2009: Recent studies have found that there are probably ways to regenerate brain matter. Animal studies conducted at the National Institute on Aging Gerontology Research Center and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, for example, have shown that both calorie restriction and intermittent fasting along with vitamin and mineral intake, increase resistance to…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Culture without religion is tourism. Anonymous
Source: calgary.ctv.ca CALGARY, CANADA, September 25, 2009: The Calgary Zoo is defending its decision to erect a statue in front of the elephant enclosure. The statue is a depiction of the elephant headed Hindu God Ganesha. Ganesha is widely revered as the remover of obstacles and is often the deity whom worshippers first acknowledge when they visit a temple. Concerned…
Source: www.hindu.com INDIA, September 13, 2009: A day in the life of an murti maker is marked by strict self-discipline, both physical and mental. “We bathe at dawn, get into fresh clothes and say a small prayer before embarking on murti making as often our work require us to stand/ stamp/ climb the murtis. We also try and abstain from…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, September 23, 2009: Villagers in India have accused the Hollywood superstar, Julia Roberts, of interrupting one of their most important religious festivals. They say that her huge film set in the town of Pataudi near Delhi has prevented them from celebrating the Navratri religious festival. The Pretty Woman star used the Hari Mandir temple to shoot…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, September 2009: Most of the world’s major river deltas are sinking, increasing the flood risk faced by hundreds of millions of people, scientists report. Damming and diverting rivers means that much less sediment now reaches many delta areas, while extraction of gas and groundwater also lowers the land. Rivers affected include the Krisha River, Nile, Rhone…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com A sannyasin of great spiritual attainment came to the outskirts of a village in India. He was camped under a tree for the night when suddenly a villager came running to him, screaming, The stone! The stone! Give me the precious stone! Which stone? asked the sannyasin. Last night, Lord Siva appeared before me in a dream, said…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, September 23, 2009: Villagers in India have accused the Hollywood superstar, Julia Roberts, of interrupting one of their most important religious festivals. They say that her huge film set in the town of Pataudi near Delhi has prevented them from celebrating the Navratri religious festival. The Pretty Woman star used the Hari Mandir temple to shoot…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com HYDERABAD, INDIA, September 25, 2009: The great Indian divide along north-south lines now stands even more blurred. A pathbreaking study by Harvard and indigenous researchers on ancestral Indian populations says there is a genetic relationship between all Indians and more importantly, the hitherto believed theory that Aryans and Dravidians signify the ancestry of north and south Indians might…