www.dailybulletin.com MONTCLAIR, CALIFORNIA, November 10, 2007: (HPI note: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of Hinduism Today, attended these opening events.) In a ceremony steeped in symbolic ritual and centuries-old tradition, the first Hindu temple in the city’s history opened Friday. Paramahamsa Nithyananda, a noted Hindu swami, led the ceremony at the 24,000-square-foot Nithyananda Vedic Temple and Vedic Sciences University at 9720…
www.chron.com HOUSON, TEXAS, November 7, 2007: Diwali is usually a lucrative time of year for local Indian-American retailers and caterers. Now some mainstream businesses are catching on to the popular Hindu holiday and marketing to the area’s growing Indian population. In recent years, Hallmark has launched Diwali greeting cards, porcelain figurine maker Lladro has launched a line of Hindu deities…
hindustantimes.com GURUVAYUR, KERALA, INDIA, November 3, 2007: The Left Front government’s move to open temple doors to all believers has run into a solid wall, this time in the form of the Lord of the Guruvayur Sri Krishna Temple. An ongoing deva prasnam (divination ritual to know the mood of the Deity) at the temple has found that the presiding…
devendra1@sbcglobal.net CALIFORNIA, November 4, 2007: Devendra Trivedi has released his US Palani Panchangam for Vikram Samvat 2064. It is calculated for the west coast time, Chicago time and east coast time. E-mail Devendra at address above to receive a copy.
voice.indiasite.com USA, November 7, 2007: (HPI Note: The following excerpt from the website of a Rajasthan-based travel agent occurs in a page — URL above — called “Medieval Indian History.” It is an example of the misleading information easily encountered when googling for Indian history.) “The conquest of Delhi by Muhammad Ghuri would change the future of Indian history radically.…
www.stockmarketsview.com USA, October 29, 2007: India’s Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, a company built from scratch by his late father Mr. Dhirubhai Ambani, has becomed the world’s richest man. Mukesh Ambani has surpassed Bill Gates, Carlos Slim and Warren Buffett, to become the world’s richest man. The strong bull rally witnessed in the Indian stock markets has boosted…
www.mysticindia.com INDIA, November 5, 2007: An excellent teacher’s guide (URL above) for grades three to eight has been made available by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, producers of “Mystic India,” the story of their founder, Lord Swaminarayan. The guide is used to teach not only the life of Lord Swaminarayan, but also various aspects of India and its history, including geography,…
www.hindu.com CHENNAI, INDIA, October 25, 2007: The Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department has expanded its orukaala puja (one puja a day) plan to ensure that at least one puja is performed every day in nearly 40,000 temples under its purview. While thousands of smaller temples, which do not have any significant income, remain closed, even in temples kept open,…
www.livemint.com MUMBAI, INDIA, November 3, 2007: (HPI note: The following review is by Sanjukta Sharma of Livemint.com.) This two-volume compendium on celebrating Hindu festivals in South India, “Follow the Hindu Moon,” is a great pre-festival buy. The author, Soumya Aravind Sitaraman, is a Silicon Valley housewife who embarked on a long research project about South Indian festivals out of personal…
www.spiegel.de BERLIN, GERMANY, November 2, 2007: Among the many diverse religious groups in the German capital Berlin are around 6,000 HIndus. However, unlike the city’s many Christians Muslims and Buddhists, Berlin’s Hindus have had no central place of worship–until now. Construction works starts Sunday on Berlin’s first Hindu temple with a religious ritual and ceremonial ground-breaking. The temple is being…