www.chicagotribune.com BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTES, June 23, 2006: A cramped room inside a locked school for juvenile offenders does not seem like the ideal setting in which to find inner peace. And yet, five teenage boys, each with a history of violent behavior, have gathered here to focus on their breath, test their strength in yoga poses and to escape. “You lose…
www.hinduismtoday.com O resplendent Lord, if I were the sole monarch of wealth as you have been, then my worshippers would have been rich in kine. Rig Veda 8.14.1
www.hindu.com CHENNAI, June 17, 2008: Thirubuvanam, a small village near Kumbakonam that has made a name for itself in traditional silk saris after Kancheepuram, is likely to repeat its success in producing silk ties. The name chosen for the exquisite hadndicrafted line is “Chola” ties. For the last few months, hundreds of weavers of Thirubuvanam Silk Handloom Weavers’ Co-operative Society…
www.telegraph.co.uk LONDON, ENGLAND, June 20, 2008: More than half of Britons think Christianity is likely to have disappeared from the country within a century, according to a survey. Research by the Orthodox Jewish organisation Aish found that just over a third of people thought religions like Christianity and Judaism would still be practiced in Britain in 100 years’ time. Although…
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www.hcilondon.net LONDON, UK, June 20, 2008: Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of medicine, is fast gaining popularity in the UK with Indian companies setting up treatment centers in London. A Kerala-style “panchkarma” treatment facility opened by the India-based Santhigram Company in the UK earlier this year has proved to be a success. The company has now opened another centre in…
www.religionnews.com USA, July 20, 2008: The latest character to test the good humor of Indian Americans is Mike Myers’ “The Love Guru,” a narcissistic spiritual leader whose goals in life are to meet girls and appear on “Oprah.” The film opened Friday (June 20) in theaters nationwide. Enough is enough, some Hindu activists claim. For them, lampooning a guru crosses…
www.hinduismtoday.com A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. Swami Chinmayananda (1917-1993), Vedantist writer, lecturer and Hindu renaissance founder of Chinmaya Mission International
www.himalmag.com INDIA, June 26, 2008: (HPI note: This is a moving account from the Nepal-based magzine Himal of the experience, mostly of those who stayed behind, when tens of thousands of workers were shipped from the Bhojur region of India to the British colonies.) Nearly 150 years ago began an agonising saga of migration from the Bhojpur region of India.…
www.hindu.com TIRUCHI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA: A group of 20 secondary-level school students of Tamil origin from Singapore is in Tiruchi as part of their “Immersion Program” to gain a first-hand understanding of the way Tamil is spoken in Tamil Nadu, and have an exposure to literary and cultural contexts. Being third or fourth generation residents of Singapore, most of the…