www.freep.com CANTON, MI, USA, May 12, 2009: Hundreds of people celebrated the ground-breaking of a $7.8-million expansion of the Canton Hindu Temple with special prayers and ceremonies. “We all prayed for happiness, to be free from distress and to see auspiciousness everywhere,” said the temple’s head priest, Shiv Kumar Bhat. “Nobody should be unhappy.” Several Hindu priests conducted Vedic rites…
www.thehindu.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 9, 2009: National Book Trust, India, and United Nations Children’s Fund have come together to start a project titled “Documenting Oral Storytelling Tradition” to scientifically present India’s vast oral tradition of children’s stories, puzzles, legends, folk and traditional games as supplementary reading material in an enjoyable, attractively designed format. The idea is to connect children…
www.youtube.com HPI note: Some HPI readers could not see this video about India’s ancient achievements, which was announced recently. HPI suggests watching this video by copying and pasting this url in your browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgf86k8C62g
www.hinduismtoday.com When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual-political leader in exile
www.youtube.com This well-made British video explores many of ancient India’s impressive achievements. Many people still do not realize that it was India that gave the world the concept of zero and developed the modern decimal numbering system, the digits zero through nine. This system (later mislabeled as Arabic in origin) made calculations much easier and led to advances in many…
www.hinduismtoday.com To define God is to defile God. Swami Chinmayananda
HPI KAPAA, HAWAII, May 15, 2009: After a detailed letter exposed the flaws of their article on Hinduism, Encyclopeadia Britannica announced it will revise it while “strives for balance in all subjects.” The letter was written by Amit Raj Dhawan, an electrical engineer by profession and a Hindu. In his expose, Dhawan wrote, “Britannica has misrepresented the concept and message…
www.bartlesvillelive.com OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, USA, Friday, May, 8, 2009: The OklahomaHouse of Representatives, by a vote of 83-2, has passed HB 1330, theTen Commandments Monument Display Act. The bill, previously passed bythe Senate, now goes to Gov. Brad Henry for his signature. It provides inpart: The State Capitol Preservation Commission … is hereby authorized to …arrange for the placement on…
www.siliconindia.com LONDON, ENGLAND, May 12, 2009: Indian-born MP Virendra Sharma has pointed out that the Equality Bill currently under discussion in Parliament needs to address the caste-based discrimination among South Asians in Britain. As written, the bill aims to consolidate nine existing equality laws into a single law banning discrimination based on race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or…
blog.taragana.com PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, May 9, 2009: – A Hindu prayer started off the inauguration of South African President Jacob Zuma at the Union Buildings on Saturday. As Indian Vice-President Hamid Ansari joined heads of state of 28 other countries, South African Hindu Maha Sabha president Ashwin Trikamjee recited a few lines in Sanskrit before translating them into English and…