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Designed for illiterates and foreign inmates who cannot read English, the book tells the story of an unhappy prisoner who learns about yoga and meditation from his cell mate. It includes breathing exercises, stretching, relaxation techniques and meditation. Sandy Chubb, the 63-year-old director of Oxford-based charity Prison Phoenix Trust, said: “When you have lost everything, your name and your family,…

University have found that naming cows and treating them as individuals can help to significantly increase their milk production.According to Dr. Catherine Douglas, “Just as people respond betterto the personal touch, cows also feel happier and more relaxed ifgiven one-to-one attention.” In their study involving 516 dairy farmers in Britain, the researcherslooked at interaction between people and cows, and found…

www.hinduismtoday.com You are your own friend and your own enemy.    Yogaswami of Sri Lanka (1872-1964)

www.sciam.com USA, January 21, 2009: [HPI note: Most publications covering global warming avoid any articles about the irrefutable link between meat consumption and CO2 emissions. It is significant that Scientific American, a respected magazine, finally ran an article about it.] Producing beef for the table releases prodigious amounts of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Pound for pound, the greenhouse gases from beef…

multimedia.asiaone.com KARNATAKA, INDIA, January 31, 2009: In India’s southern Karnataka, a monkey prevented the authorities from demolishing a roadside Hanuman temple by attacking any officials who venture near the temple premises. (Click on the link above to see the video). The monkey fiercely defended the temple dedicated to the Hindu monkey God, Hanuman. Locals said the monkey normally is docile,…

www.hinduismtoday.com If we look at the past and we look at the future as both a series of dreams, and the only thing that we are concerned with is our immediate reactions and what we carry with us now, we see that the past is there to test us and the future is there to challenge us. We cannot change…

www.speroforum.com QATAR, January 30, 2009: More and more Nepalese emigrants who have gone to Muslim majority countries to work – for example, on the Arabian Peninsula – are abandoning their Hindu religion and embracing Islam in order to improve their economic and social situation. According to figures from the Nepalese workers’ union, in Qatar alone there have been about 2,000…

By Rajiv Malik, HPI Correspondent, India/South Asia NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 31, 2009: Sri Swami Padmanabhanandaji Maharaj has been appointed as the new General Secretary of The Divine Life Society by the Board of Trustees of The Divine Life Trust Society in their meeting held on the 4th January, 2009. His Holiness Sri Swami Vimalananda, 76, a senior monk of…

www.hinduonnet.com PANAJI, INDIA, January 29, 2009: [HPI Note: This movie has been called a serious contender for this year’s Academy Awards. Set and filmed in India, Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of a young uneducated man from the Dharavi slums of Mumbai who appears on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Kaun Banega Crorepati. Its plotline…

timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 29, 2009: Performing yoga is not un-Islamic– indeed, offering namaz, the Islamic prayer is also a form of the practice yoga, according to Adil Siddiqui, spokesperson of Darul Uloom Deoband, India’s leading Islamic seminary. Dismissing the recent controversy over the issue, Siddiqui said Wednesday that “Yoga is not a problem in Islam, but giving a…