www.sltrib.com UTAH, USA, November 7, 2008: The smells of paneer pakora and stuffed okra filled the Governor’s Mansion on Friday night as Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. invited many from Utah’s Indian community to celebrate Diwali with him and his family. It all happens because two years ago, the Huntsmans adopted a daughter, Asha, from India. He told the crowd gathered…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 5, 2008: Indian congressman Brij Mohan Bhama credits Barack Obama’s election to Lord Hanuman. “It was the magic of Pawanputra Hanuman that did it all,” asserts a convinced Bhama, who is also an Obama fan. “It is the triumph of Lord Hanuman on the soils of America.” The president-elect of the US said earlier this…
www.hindustantimes.com HYDERABAD, INDIA, November 9, 2008: Nearly 6,000 senior Islamic clerics from around the country endorsed a fatwa (edict) against terror issued on May 31 by influential Islamic seminary Darul Uloom, Deoband. On Sunday, 50,000 more are expected to put their signatures on it, making it the biggest and clearest rejection of terror by Muslims. Darul Uloom, some 100 km…
www.robbinsvilleweb.com [HPI note: Yesterday’s editions of HPI had the first paragraphs of each item missing. This edition corrects it and presents the full version.] ROBBINSVILLE, NEW JERSEY, USA, October 28, 2008: The Robbinsville planning board has unanimously approved plans for a five-building Hindu worship complex to be built by BAPS Swaminarayan. The buildings will be erected on 37 acres of…
www.hindu.com CHENNAI, INDIA, November 2, 2008: Music therapy as a potential supplement to the management of neurological disorders is gaining ground across major hospitals in India. In a lecture Saturday, Dr. Krishnamoorthy Srinivas of the Institute of Neurological Sciences said that India is starting to catch up with the West in the use of music for healing. He recommended establishing…
pib.nic.in INDIA, October 27, 2008: The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA), in coordination with a specialist company called Indiaroots, is launching a program called “Tracing the Roots” to help persons of Indian origin anywhere in the world to trace their ancestry and locate living relatives. Completed application forms, along with the US$500 fee, may be submitted to one’s local…
www.fresnobee.com FRESNO, CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER 24, 2008: Hindus use special prayer beads called mala. They help Hindus to focus their minds as they meditate, pray and chant mantras twice daily — usually in the morning and at night, just before going to bed. “Mala usually is something Hindus do in private,” says Ann Berliner, professor of philosophy and religion at California…
www.hinduismtoday.com “If people wish to eat meat and run the risk of dying a horrible, lingering, hormone-induced death after sprouting extra breasts and large amounts of hair, it is, of course, entirely up to them. I am convinced that in years to come we will regard eating animal flesh in the same light as we now regard cannibalism.” Excerpted from…
The buildings will be erected on 37 acres of a 102-acre tract of vacant farmland located on Route 130 and North Main Street. In response to concerns about increased traffic during holidays and special events, BAPS has agreed to hire police to direct traffic during these times. They further agreed to landscape the area so as not to be visible…
In a lecture Saturday, Dr. Krishnamoorthy Srinivas of the Institute of Neurological Sciences said that India is starting to catch up with the West in the use of music for healing. He recommended establishing a music therapy clinic at every major hospital, though he cautioned against regarding it as a panacea. Dr. Srinivas drew from Western studies as well as…