timesofindia.indiatimes.com THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS, September 2, 2008: At the Ganesh Chaturthi festival celebrations in the Hague, Netherlands, this year, the city will have a memorable event happening. A 2.25-meter tall Ganesha installed for the celebrations in Hague, perhaps the largest in Europe, was be shipped from Pune. The celebrations in the Hague are being organized by the United Kingdom-based Hindu…
www.televisionpoint.com CHENNAI, INDIA, August 27, 2008: Magic Box Animation Studio of Chennai released CDs and DVDs of the 2D and 3D animation film called Sri Ganesha recently, and has been receiving great response from the public. R. Satish Gupta, proprietor, Magic Box Animation Studio, says, “Along with conveying the moral of the story, we wanted to encourage the use of…
news.bbc.co.uk MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, September 2, 2008: Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction. Wild deer also display this behavior – a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen and hunters for thousands of years. In the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences, scientists say the Earth’s magnetic…
www.hinduismtoday.com The longest journey is the journey inward, in the process of self-improvement. Swami Shivapremananda, South American Swami who teaches yoga, a disciple of Swami Sivananda
afp.google.com SRINAGAR, INDIA, September 1, 2008: Muslims in Indian Kashmir suspended a two-month long protest caused when the government agreed to temporarily provide land to a Hindu trust managing a key pilgrimage in the Muslim-majority region. Muslims in the Kashmir valley, where the land is located, held huge anti-India demonstrations after state authorities made public their plans in June to…
www.deccan.com LONDON, ENGLAND, September 1, 2008: Herbal and Ayurvedic medicines, which are sold on the Internet, contain lead, mercury and arsenic levels beyond “acceptable standards,” according to the latest research. The highest levels of lead and mercury were found in medicines made by the ancient practice of rasa shastra, which deliberately combines herbs with metals, minerals and gems. Two main…
www.ddinews.gov.in NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 27, 2008: In a bid to help India achieve its national development goals, UNICEF on Thursday pledged USD 700 million for its joint initiatives with the government, UNICEF said about one-fifth of the world’s children live in India. Stating that the USD 700 million has been pledged for achievement of overall goals of the 2008-2012…
www.hinduismtoday.com The body is cleansed by water, the internal organ is purified by truthfulness, the individual soul by sacred learning and austerities, the intellect by true knowledge. Laws of Manu 5.109
www.hinduismtoday.com KAUAI, HAWAII, USA, December, 1999: [HPI note: this is the article Hinduism Today published on the occasion of Swami receiving the Hindu of the Year Award.] At 83, Swami Chidananda, president of the Divine Life Society, is one of India’s spiritual treasures, a sage, a beacon of light and a living example of the simplicity that lies at the…
www.indianexpress.com JELASPOTA, ORISSA, INDIA, August 28, 2008: While violence rages across Kandhamal district, in the ashram, where its spark was lit when Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati and four others were killed on August 24, the adults are angry, the children traumatized. Many of the 130 girls in the Kanya Ashram, a residential school on the campus, were eyewitnesses to the killing…