www.princeton.edu PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, USA, April 27, 2009: Eight students have been named winners of the 2009 Spirit of Princeton Award, which honors Princeton University undergraduates for their positive contributions to campus life. One of this year’s winners is Manav Lalwani of Secaucus, N.J., a politics major and a candidate for certificates in political economy, East Asian studies and South…
www.hinduismtoday.com I hold that the more helpless a creature is, the more entitled it is to protection from the cruelty of man. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
www.army.mod.uk BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, April 15, 2009: Hindus from England’s three armed forces gathered at Birmingham’s Shree Geeta Bhawan temple on April 8 for the Armed Forces annual Hindu conference. Hosted by Acharya Krishan Kant Attri, Hindu Chaplain to the Armed Forces, the conference brought Hindu service personnel together to hear speakers their own and other faiths. Speakers extolled diversity and…
www.hinduonnet.com MOSCOW, RUSSIA, April 23, 2009: Russia’s former First Lady Naina Yeltsina wants every home in the country to practice yoga for a healthy lifestyle. “I have been practicing yoga for last two years. I think it is indispensable for people above 50. It would be good if it was practiced in every Russian home,” Naina Yeltsina, 77, said at…
worldtamilhinduforum.blogspot.com TAMIL NADU, INDIA, April 21, 2009: [HPI note: this is an article on the importance of feeding devotees during Hindu festivals] In every ethnic and religious community across the Indian subcontinent, no festival or ceremony is complete without annadanam (offering of food), or at least with the distribution of prasadam, the edible items offered during puja. Annadanams are based…
www.hinduismtoday.com In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher. Dalai Lama
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…
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.…
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…
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…