www.oxfordmail.co.uk (HPI note: HPI brings to the reader today news about Holi’s celebrations from a few of the gatherings all around the world where Hindus reveled in this colorful festival. Two articles highlight the fast rate of growth of Hindu temples and centers in diasporic communities.) SOUTH OXFORD, ENGLAND, March 13, 2007: Oxfordshire’s Hindu community has organized a Holi Festival…
www.news-journalonline.com DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA, March 14, 2009: Bright colors, jubilation and prayer chants filled a crowded little temple on Madison Avenue this week, as local Hindu people celebrated Holi festivities under bright moonlight. The day after the full moon in the Hindu month of Phalguna, or early March, Indian people gather together merrymaking, eating and congregating to welcome the spring…
HPI correspondent TRINIDAD, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, March 15, 2009: (By PARAS RAMOUTAR, HPI correspondent) endless colors exploded on the landscape and in the air as Hindus in Trinidad and Tobago celebrated the Festival of Phagwa (Holi) today. The Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha(SDMS) led by Satnarayan Maharaj, secretary general feels that the propagation of Indian culture maintains a paramount thrust in…
Religion News Service SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA, March 2009: Friday afternoons find the Rev. Ann Holmes Redding at the Al-Islam Center in Seattle, reciting Muslim prayers. Come Sunday, she heads about two miles south to kneel in the pews of St. Clement’s of Rome Episcopal Church. Redding says she is both Christian and Muslim, fully following both faiths. And for that,…
www.hinduismtoday.com Be young. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity; of the appetite for adventure over love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than in a boy of twenty. Swami Bua, age 121
www.hinduonnet.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 4, 2009: At least 73 burials have been unearthed just 60 km from the Indian capital, indicating the largest Harappan cemetery found to date. The excavations could clear many gaps in history, archaeologists said Wednesday. Archaeologists from three universities have been at work for three seasons, excavating the 20-hectare-site of the ancient civilization at Farmana,…
www.tricityvoice.com FREMONT, CALIFORNIA, USA, March 14, 2009: Each year, the Holi event at Fremont Hindu Temple promises colors, music, dance, free lunch and lots of fun for all ages. This year, the joyous festival will be celebrated Sunday, March 15. “Every year around 600-800 people play Holi in Fremont Hindu Temple,” says Ajay Jain Bhutoria, chairman of the Youth Committee.…
www.ivarta.com In the wake of the infamous California textbook case, Sri Vishal Agarwal wrote a detailed analysis on the status accorded to women by Hindu dharma and how women were treated in the Hindu society in the past. Part 1 starts as follows: “Equality of sexes is a modern is a modern ideal that is yet to be realized in…
www.hinduismtoday.com Any event has an endless past and an endless future, it is never-ending and nowhere-ending. This tantalizing endlessness which marks it as unreal invites the soul to press on to the Absolute. S. Radhakrishnan
blog.travel-culture.com KATASRAJ, INDIA, March 8, 2009: The Punjab Archaeology Department is setting up a museum at Katasraj near Chakwal to highlight the culture and history of this fine historical treasure. A team experts, assisted by Punjab University Archaeology Department students, is searching the area for archeological fragments. The researchers are also preparing a report on on the architecture in the…