www.hinduonnet.com LONDON, ENGLAND, February 2009: Indian professionals in Britain are uneasy over growing resentment among recession-hit British workers who have been protesting against offering employment to foreigners. A wave of strikes has hit several companies, including oil major Total, in Nottinghamshire and other places in Britain to protest employing foreign workers. The resentment is so far limited to employing workers…
HPI THIRUVAVADUTHURAI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, February 8, 2009: The ancient Thiruvavaduthurai Aadheenam, one of the most prominent aadheenams in South India, has honored renowned scholar S. P. Sabharathnam with the “Thirumular Award” for his lifetime dedication to the Saiva Agamas. Sabharathnam, who is Hinduism Today’s consultant on Agamas, last January addressed the public at the Indian National Seminar on Agamas,…
hinduismtoday.com KAUAI, HAWAII, February 14, 2009: A free, detailed set of lesson plans for the two history lessons published by Hinduism Today has now been posted at the URL above. These were developed by a professional teacher and will be a great aid in teaching these highly regarded lessons presenting the history of India and Hinduism in a sound scholastic…
www.hinduismtoday.com The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and…
Religion News Services USA, February 12, 2009: Following is a list of Gallup’s least and most religious U.S. states, along with comparable findings in nations across the globe. The list is based on the percentage of people who said religion is an “important part” of their daily lives: Most religious Lebanon (86) Mississippi, U.S. (85) Iran (83) Alabama, U.S. (82)…
thestar.com.my PENANG, MALAYSIA, February 12, 2009: Colorful, extravagantly decorated kavadis dance to the loud music coming from the gaily-coloured stalls where crowds gather for free lunch and drinks. In the background someone yells “She’s in a trance!” Others recite prayers, chanting “vel vel!” and “haro-hara!” Everyone’s having a good time. And with piety at that. It’s Thaipusam in Penang. Unlike…
www.hinduismtoday.com I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Religion offered nothing to the point. When I discovered reincarnation … time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. American auto industrialist Henry Ford
www.themalaysianinsider.com SINGAPORE, February 8, 2009 – With the world’s economy plunging, religious attendance is surging. In the United States, churches have been filling since September. The same seems to be true here, too: attendance at churches, temples and mosques has grown by as much as 50 percent since the recession hit. Angie Monksfield, president of the Buddhist Fellowship, has seen…
www.ndtv.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, February 8, 2009: For over 13 years, Kailash Giri has been pilgrimaging on foot from one Hindu shrine to another, carrying his blind 83-year-old mother, Kirti Devi, on his shoulders. He is being hailed as a modern-day Shravan Kumar, an epic character hailed as the perfect son. Wearing the saffron dhoti favoured by Hindu pilgrims, his torso…
www.thehindu.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 11,2009: The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a resolution recognising the 50th anniversary of the visit of legendary civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. to India and the positive influence of Mahatma Gandhi’s teachings on his work. Jim McDermott, co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans, said: “We need Gandhi…