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www.hinduismtoday.com In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher. Dalai Lama
Ratha Yatra Celebrated With Traditional Fervor — in Texas
www.odishatoday.com DALLAS, TEXAS, July 7, 2008: The DFW Hindu Temple Society, Ekta Mandir celebrated Rath Yatra, the car festival of idols Jagannath, Balabhadra and their sister Devi Subhadra on Sunday, July 6, in Dallas, Texas, two days after the world famous Rath Yatra at Puri, with much fanfare and traditional fervor. Hundreds of devotees from Dallas, Fort Worth and the…
The Societal Impact of Migration to British Colonies from India, 1873 to 1916
www.himalmag.com INDIA, June 26, 2008: (HPI note: This is a moving account from the Nepal-based magzine Himal of the experience, mostly of those who stayed behind, when tens of thousands of workers were shipped from the Bhojur region of India to the British colonies.) Nearly 150 years ago began an agonising saga of migration from the Bhojpur region of India.…
The British’s Resentful Relationship With A Hindu India
www.newstatesman.com MUMBAI, INDIA, April 23, 2009: It may be hard to credit now, as 700 million voters go to the polls in the world’s biggest elections, but back in the 1940s the wise men of the British Raj predicted that while Pakistan would prosper, India would soon be divided into smaller mutually hostile state. Pakistan, it was thought, would become…
Shree Sanatan Dharm Brahman Purohit Sabha of Fiji Retains Top Officials
shambu@connect.com.fj FIJI, September 13, 2007: Brahman Shiromani Pundit Anant Anand Sharma was re-elected to the post of national president of the Shree Sanatan Dharm Brahman Purohit Sabha of Fiji for a sixteenth consecutive year. The Brahman Sabha is the religious arm of all Sanatan followers in Fiji and consists of Hindu priests. Pundit Sharma who has been preaching since the…
India President Lauds Spain’s Many Yoga Ashrams
www.hindu.com MADRID, SPAIN, April 22, 2009: President Pratibha Patil has lauded the role of over 500 “yoga ashrams” in Spain in helping the Spanish have a feel of India. “The links between India and Spain cover many dimensions” Ms. Patil said at the State Banquet hosted in her honour by Spanish King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia here on Tuesday…
Shree Sanatan Dharm Brahman Purohit Sabha of Fiji Retains Top Officials
shambu@connect.com.fj FIJI, September 13, 2007: Brahman Shiromani Pundit Anant Anand Sharma was re-elected to the post of national president of the Shree Sanatan Dharm Brahman Purohit Sabha of Fiji for a sixteenth consecutive year. The Brahman Sabha is the religious arm of all Sanatan followers in Fiji and consists of Hindu priests. Pundit Sharma who has been preaching since the…
Christians Accused of Trying to Convert Obama’s Muslim Grandmother
RNS NAIROBI, KENYA, April 23, 2009: A row is simmering between Christians and Muslims in Kenya over reported attempts to convert President Obama’s grandmother, Sarah Obama, to Christianity.”We had invited her to grace our meeting in Kisumu,” Lewis Ondiek, an official with the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kenya, told Ecumenical News International. “Mama Sarah had assured us that she was…
Swami Ramdev Extols Virtues of Yoga As Treatment for Disease
Rajiv Malik, HPI Correspondent.DELHI, INDIA, March 23, 2005:
Daily Inspiration
www.hinduismtoday.com There are more than one million Indians here in America now. And I think more than half of them are here tonight (laughter and applause). And I might say, Mr. Prime Minister, the other half are disappointed that they’re not here (laughter). President Bill Clinton at a State Dinner held at the white house in honor of India’s Prime…