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India Moves to Protect Ayurveda, Herbs and Yogas From Foreign Patents
www.guardian.co.uk INDIA, February 22, 2009: India has licensed 200,000 local treatments, almost all ayurvedic, as “public property,” free for anyone to use–thus becoming the first developing country to prevent multinational companies from patenting traditional remedies and selling them as a “brand.” Concerned about increasing levels of “bio-prospecting,” investigators found that least 5,000 patents have been issued to date. “More than…
Oscar Award A Shivratri Gift,” Says Winner
www.hinduonnet.com THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, February 23, 2009: “This is a Shivaratri gift. It is absolutely incredible,” an elated Resul Pookutty said after his triumph at the Oscar awards for sound-mixing Slumdog Millionaire. Resul Pookutty (born 1971) is an Academy Award and BAFTA Award winning Indian film sound designer and mixer. Pookutty is from Vilakkupara, Kollam in Kerala. He is the first…
A Cure Is Right There, In the Mind
www.sciam.com USA, February 22, 2009: In recent decades reports have confirmed the efficacy of biochemically inert treatments in nearly all areas of medicine. Placebos can help not only to alleviate illnesses with an obvious psychological component, such as pain, depression and anxiety, but also to lessen the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and inflammatory disorders. Occasionally, placebos have shrunk tumors. Today,…
Daily Inspiration
www.hinduismtoday.com Eternal, pure, groundless, death-and-birth free, pervasive, ever immaculate, distant, near, enveloping effulgence of void, the support of all, the fullness of bliss, the consciousness-form beyond thought and speech, That which thus stood, the expanse vast that generates bliss, let us contemplate. Tayumanavar (1706-1744), South Indian devotional poet
Last Nepal King Visits India
timesofindia.indiatimes.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, February 25, 2009: Nepal’s last king, 62-year-old Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah, left Nepal Wednesday to visit New Delhi, accompanied by his wife, former queen Komal, and sister, former princess Shobha Shahi. This is Shah’s first trip outside Nepal since his fall from power. The former god-king, now plain Mr Gyanendra Shah, left Nepal as a commoner, apparently…
Pashupatinath Attracted Fewer Sadhus This Year
www.myrepublica.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, February 23, 2009: The number of sadhus (holy men) visiting Pashupatinath temple from India during the Shivaratri festival this year has gone down dramatically. Officials at Pashupatinath’s Goshwara Guthi Office, entrusted with hospitality for the visiting sadhus, said only about 1,650 sadhus turned up for Mahashivaratri, down from about 2,500 last year. Until two years ago, the…
Devotees Say Hindu Temple Lands in Karachi Were Stolen
www.newstrackindia.com KARACHI, INDIA, February 18, 2009: A historical temple of Lord Shiva in the Jamshed Town area of Karachi has been the victim of a land grab. Built in the late 1930’s, the temple occupied over two acres of land, but most of that has now been captured by builders. The temple caretaker, Ashok Kumar, claimed the builders have occupied…
Daily Inspiration
www.hinduismtoday.com We didn’t inherit the Earth from our parents. We’re borrowing it from our children. Chief Seattle (1788-1866) Squamish Native American chief
On Mahasivaratri, Four Million Visit Pashupatinath
www.nepalmountainnews.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, February 24, 2009: Around four million devotees from within and outside the country visited the revered Hindu temple of Pashupati Nath on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri on Monday. Devotees had lined up to Old Baneswor and Chabahil to get a chance for worship in the temple from as early as 3 am. Devotees had to stand…