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www.wavesinternational.net ORLANDO, FLORIDA, June 19, 2008: Over three hundred scholars, students, professors, and other participants are expected to gather in Orlando, Florida, to sort out clues from ancient Indian wisdom for the coming generations in the modern context of social, economic, environmental, and political upheavals throughout the world. This gathering (click URL above) will be at the Seventh International Conference…

www.hinduonnet.com MADURAI, INDIA: The famed Meenakshi temple has taken up a project to digitally document the thousands of magnificent sculptures adorning the nine towers of the shrine. Renovation of the various towers was underway now and the documentation would also help in preserving the originality of the sculptures, temple officials said. The digital pictures would give details about the position…

www.hinduismtoday.com TRINIDAD, June 20, 2008: Anil Mahabir, long-time correspondent for Hinduism Today in Trinidad and the Carribean, passed away May 23, 2008. He was a graduate of the University of the West Indies, a teacher, journalism, radio host and, in his youth, a rather good cricket player. He provided some twenty stories to Hinduism Today since 1996.

www.hinduonnet.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, July 16, 2008: Nepal’s main royal palace will soon open as a public museum offering a glimpse of centuries of royal life, including a jewel-studded crown, a king’s throne, royal attires and a vintage car with a peculiar history, the government said on Monday. Home Secretary Umesh Mainali said the target was to complete work in a…

www.hinduismtoday.com JAFFNA, SRI LANKA, July 16, 2008: Dr. Thangamma Appakutti passed away on Sunday noon, at the age of 84 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Her contributions toward the Tamil Hindu community of Sri Lanka in the areas of social services and education made her one of the most outstanding Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu leaders of the last decades. In 2007,…

www.hinduismtoday.com “Find God. That is the only purpose in life.”    Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886)

www.washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON, D.C. June 14, 2008: [HPI note: We were surprised to see this negative report on the “Speak Sanskrit” movement in India and Sanskrit in general, which includes statements including, “Such camps, run by volunteers from Hindu nationalist groups, are designed to promote a language long dismissed as dead….” “Dismissed as dead” is an inaccurate statement given that Sanskrit…

www.hinduonnet.com TIRUPATI, INDIA, June 10, 2008: The sacred laddu “prasadam,” popularly known as “Tirupati Laddu” at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala near here, would soon get patent rights under Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act. The sources said the famous Tirupati laddu was introduced at the hill temple some eight decades ago. Over 25…

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