HPI correspondent TRINIDAD, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, March 15, 2009: (By PARAS RAMOUTAR, HPI correspondent) endless colors exploded on the landscape and in the air as Hindus in Trinidad and Tobago celebrated the Festival of Phagwa (Holi) today. The Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha(SDMS) led by Satnarayan Maharaj, secretary general feels that the propagation of Indian culture maintains a paramount thrust in…
Religion News Service SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA, March 2009: Friday afternoons find the Rev. Ann Holmes Redding at the Al-Islam Center in Seattle, reciting Muslim prayers. Come Sunday, she heads about two miles south to kneel in the pews of St. Clement’s of Rome Episcopal Church. Redding says she is both Christian and Muslim, fully following both faiths. And for that,…
www.hinduismtoday.com Be young. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity; of the appetite for adventure over love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than in a boy of twenty. Swami Bua, age 121
www.hinduonnet.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 4, 2009: At least 73 burials have been unearthed just 60 km from the Indian capital, indicating the largest Harappan cemetery found to date. The excavations could clear many gaps in history, archaeologists said Wednesday. Archaeologists from three universities have been at work for three seasons, excavating the 20-hectare-site of the ancient civilization at Farmana,…
www.tricityvoice.com FREMONT, CALIFORNIA, USA, March 14, 2009: Each year, the Holi event at Fremont Hindu Temple promises colors, music, dance, free lunch and lots of fun for all ages. This year, the joyous festival will be celebrated Sunday, March 15. “Every year around 600-800 people play Holi in Fremont Hindu Temple,” says Ajay Jain Bhutoria, chairman of the Youth Committee.…
www.ivarta.com In the wake of the infamous California textbook case, Sri Vishal Agarwal wrote a detailed analysis on the status accorded to women by Hindu dharma and how women were treated in the Hindu society in the past. Part 1 starts as follows: “Equality of sexes is a modern is a modern ideal that is yet to be realized in…
www.hinduismtoday.com Any event has an endless past and an endless future, it is never-ending and nowhere-ending. This tantalizing endlessness which marks it as unreal invites the soul to press on to the Absolute. S. Radhakrishnan
www.indiaglitz.com VIJAYAWADA, ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, March 6, 2009: Thanks to a gift of over 26 kilos of silver, the entrance doors to the sanctum sanctorum of Sri Malleshwara Swamy Temple, situated on the Indra Keeladri in Vijayawada, have been covered with silver plating. The silver, worth over Rs. 700,000, was gifted by Dr. RamaNaidu, a movie mogul. Prior to installation,…
www.helsinkitimes.fi HELSINKI, FINLAND, March 6, 2009: Senni Kela, spokesperson for the Finnish Vegan Society , says several studies indicate that the number vegetarians in Finland is somewhere between 3 and 5 percent of the population. “I believe that the number is constantly growing, especially now when people are realizing that their meat- and dairy-heavy diets contribute to climate change.” This…
www.hinduismtoday.com Just as a man will use a staff to climb a mountain, so should virtue be used in life. Yogaswami of Jaffna (1872-1964)