www.ptinews.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 2, 2009: For the first time in the history of Nepal’s revered Pashupatinath temple, devotees were unable to offer worship to the centuries-old deity after a row erupted between the trust that looks after the shrine and the priests, a bad omen according to the locals. The dispute that began last month with the Pashupatinath Area…
news.bbc.co.uk KILINOCHCHI, SRI LANKA, January 2, 2008: Sri Lanka’s military have seized control of the Tamil Tiger rebels’ de facto capital of Kilinochchi, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has announced. A pro-Tamil website confirmed the news but said the town was mostly empty as the rebel fighters had moved out. The town is of huge symbolic importance to the Tigers, who had…
www.nytimes.com NEW DELHI, January 1, 2008: China and India are in a struggle for a top rung on the ladder of world power, but their approaches to the state and to power could not be more different. Two days after last month’s terrorist attack on Mumbai, I met with a Chinese friend who was visiting India on business. He was…
www.hinduismtoday.com The man who is kind and practices righteousness, who remains passive in the affairs of the world, who considers creatures of the world as his own self, he attains the immortal Being; the true God is ever with him. Saint Kabir (1440-1518)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, December 30, 2008: The government’s decision to sack South Indian priests from the Pashupatinath Temple in the capital has sparked a row in Nepal, with the main Opposition party accusing the Maoists of hurting “the religious sentiments” of the Hindus in the country. The Nepali Congess, the second largest party in the country, has raised serious objections…
blogs.reuters.com (Reuters Editorial Blog) December 29, 2008: Political scientist Samuel Huntington, whose controversial book “îhe Clash of Civilizations”†predicted conflict between the West and the Islamic world, has died at age 81, Harvard University said on Saturday.br /br /In his 1996 “îhe Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order,”†which expanded on his 1993 article in Foreign Affairs magazine, Huntington…
www.hinduismtoday.com O Lord of power, if I were the Lord of herds of cattle, then I would have given to those intelligent worshippers plenty, as much as I could. Rig Veda 8.14.2
www.ndtv.com PUNE, INDIA, December 30, 2008: An institute in Pune is offering women a one-year course to train them to become purohitas, female priests. The response so far has been quite encouraging. “Seventy per cent of our batch comprises women, most of them housewives, who are doing this course to do a job of a purohita,” said Arya Joshi, Senior…
www.nhpr.org CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, U.S.A., December 26, 2008: The U.S. economic recession is wreaking havoc on the lives and hopes of refugees here. In the past, a refugee in America would receive a few months of assistance, find a job with modest wages and work hard to achieve a more secure economic footing. Historically, according to government figures, about 70%…
www.hinduismtoday.com The future is the continuing summation of all our past actions and reactions, for there is only the moment in which we live. The eternal now is the only consciousness we have when living in the higher states of mind. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami