Source: abcnews.go.com US, September 15, 2009: Technology has fit an entire library into the palm of your hand, and schools are finding that electronically delivered information is much more cost-effective than expensive textbooks. Some high schools have gone entirely textbook-free, providing each student with a laptop instead of a heavy pile of books. A wealth of educational material is freely…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Whenever you have the chance, laugh as much as you can. By this all the rigid knots in your body will be loosened. But to laugh superficially is not enough; your whole being must be united in laughter, both inwardly and outwardly. Do you know how this is to be expressed? You literally shake with merriment from head…
Source: www.hindu.com CUDDALORE, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, September 23, 2009: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy will file a special leave petition in the Supreme Court to challenge the verdict of the Madras High Court Division Bench upholding the takeover of the Chidambaram Natarajar Temple by the Tamil Nadu government. Dr. Swamy and Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders offered worship at the Natarajar…
Source: orissadiary.com CUTTACK, ORISSA, September 11, 2009: This year Dusherra in Orissa means addition of more gold and silver in the “medhas” — silver-made backgrounds behind the Durga deity made specially for this celebration. Across the city around 154 puja committees observe the festival, but only a few have silver “medhas.” The Binod Behari puja committee, the oldest committee in…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com PUNE, INDIA, September 19, 2009: The auspicious nine-day Navaratra festival that commences today will witness muted celebrations on the backdrop of the H1N1 scare in the city. A press note from the Sri Mahalakshmi Mandir, Sarasbaug, said that the celebrations, to be held from September 19 to 28, would be on a very low scale to avoid crowding,…
Source: www.theasiannews.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, September 19, 2009: Colorful statutes of some of the most important Hindu Gods are due to arrive from Kolkata in India to Manchester next week. They will form part of the centerpiece of one of the most significant religious Hindu festivals in the city, Durga Puja. The star of the five-day event, taking place between 24-28…
Source: www.merinews.com MARYLAND, U.S.A., September 17, 2009: Hindu Mandir (Temple) Executives representing 111 temples and Hindu organizations from more than 25 states of U.S. and Canada converged in Lithicum, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC, to attend the Fourth annual Hindu Mandir Executives Conference (HMEC), this week. The fourth annual HMEC-2009, was another step in the development of network and…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com An old brahmin priest spoke with his Lord Siva about heaven and hell (which is called Narakaloka in Sanskrit and differs from other hells in not being eternal, but a temporary state of souls between births). The Lord said to the aging pandit, “Come, I will show you hell.” They entered a room where a group of people…
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…