HPI USA, March 22, 2009: Pastors tend to expect increased church attendance when times are hard; but a poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life indicates that the present recession is not following that pattern. Though the stock market has dropped precipitously over the last two years, the percentage of Americans attending worship services at least weekly…
www.hinduismtoday.com As the bee takes the essence of a flower and flies away without destroying its beauty and perfume, so let the sage wander in this life. Dhammapada 50
www.duniyalive.com LONDON, ENGLAND, March 21, 2009: An aging Hindu residing in Britain is fighting for the right to have a natural cremation on a funeral pyre, per Hindu tradition. Government lawyers are contending this would be abhorrent to the majority of the British population. Davender Kumar Ghai, a devout 70-year-old Hindu who has lived in Britain since 1958, is the…
www.expressbuzz.com COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, March 20, 2009: The Sri Lankan government told the nation’s Parliament on Thursday that it had decided to declare Kachchativu Island (midway between Sri Lanka and India in the Palk Strait) as a sacred area in view of the fact that it was a centre for the worship of St Anthony, the patron saint of fishermen…
Press Release CARDIFF, WALES, March 17, 2009: From March 18 to April 4, 2009, two artists from India will be at St Fagans: National History Museum, Cardiff creating colourful full-size images of a Hindu goddess for the Wales Puja Committee. The visit of the artists to Wales will offer the unique opportunity to see them at work creating images of…
www.sindhtoday.net AGRA, INDIA, March 17, 2009: In Bangladesh, the Ramayana is the most popular performing art form, says a leading playwright of the country. “The Indian epic exists in harmony a variety of indigenous folk arts,” says Saymon Zakaria. “Åt least eight versions of the Ramayana, mostly folklore-based performances, are enacted in the countryside of Bangladesh. It is one of…
www.himmeljord.no MINDE, NORWAY: Bergen Hindu Sabha names both a religious community of Hindus from India and Sri Lanka, and also a Tamil Hindu temple of the Saiva tradition dedicated to Lord Ganesha, the God of intellect and wisdom and ruler of obstacles. Its spokesperson, Raajini Rajalingam, says that Bergen Hindu Sabha has been active since the mid 1980s and was…
awesome.goodmagazine.com USA, March 22, 2009: Potable water is destined to be a commodity in increasingly short supply. The image at the “Source” link (which HPI suggests as very enlightening on the subject) provides a compelling pictorial statement of various water-use choices, especially the tremendous drain on our resources represented by beef production. Producing a single pound of beef requires 1,500…
www.hinduismtoday.com The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts. Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993)
news.bbc.co.uk [HPI note: However sad, news on this conflict are important for Hindus because of the murder of Swami Laxshmananda in late 2008, which sparked riots. Hindu leaders have been systematically persecuted in Orissa — or even killed. The population believes that unscrupulous proselytizers, using their financial edge, are allied with the violent Maoists.] BHUBANESHWAR, ORISSA, INDIA, March 19, 2009:…