biz.yahoo.com USA, October 17, 2007: Market research can be full of surprises. Sometimes, in seeking to find out one thing, researchers turn up a whole different set of unexpected conclusions. Consider: A few months ago, online pearl merchants The Pearl Outlet noticed that a growing number of customers, when asked the reason for their pearl purchases, replied that the baubles…
inhome.rediff.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 17, 2007: Das Kapital is coming to Kolkata at a Puja-stall near you. Amid the scores of kiosks selling a variety of goods from Made-in-China torches to water purifiers, jostled by hoardings announcing “heavy discounts,” peeping out insistently from the glittering spectrum of colors, you will notice a “red corner” the CPI(M)’s bookstore at the…
Religion News Service VATICAN CITY, October 18, 2007: Twenty-one years ago this month, Pope John Paul II met in Assisi, Italy, with more than 150 leaders of different religions to pray for peace. Images of the pontiff worshipping in the Basilica of St. Francis alongside colorfully garbed Tibetan Buddhists, Japanese Shintoists and representatives of traditional African and American faiths captivated…
epaper.timesofindia.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 27, 2007: The Central Market in Lajpat Nagar on Saturday saw a curious sight–a number of women were weaving their way through the thick crowd, their hands held aloft and a look of intense concentration on their faces. They were in fact busy trying to keep the freshly applied mehndi on their hands intact. With…
ibnlive.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 27, 2007: Liberalization and a free market economy have not changed traditional biases in companies. A study conducted by American and Indian scholars shows that there is a caste bias in the country’s private sector with companies preferring to recruit upper-caste candidates even if they are less qualified. Two Princeton University researchers, who are studying…
Vivekananda Centre London LONDON, ENGLAND, October 15, 2007: (HPI received the following report from Jay Lakhani of the Vivekananda Centre, London.) Every year we present Hindu teachings to the postgraduate students at the Muslim college in London. These encounters are very interesting because they reflect the mood of Muslim youngsters and the way they view Hinduism. Over the past many…
www.nytimes.com USA, October 11, 2007: In any controversy it can be helpful to consider the views of disinterested parties. So, on the subject of agricultural policy and practice, it’s worth noting that an unimpeachably neutral group has joined the ranks of those who prefer organic foods over foods produced with the help of synthetic chemicals. That group is 40 Swiss…
www.indiaenews.com KANPUR, INDIA, October 13, 2007: Indian metallurgists have developed a type of corrosion-resistant iron that construction engineers would love. And vital clues for it came for Delhi’s famous Iron Pillar that has been standing tall for over 1,600 years. Developed by Ramamurthy Balasubramaniam and his former student Gadadhar Sahoo of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur, the…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, October 21, 2007: (HPI note: It is nothing new in India for Christian priests to don the apparel of the Hindu swami and try to incorporate some Hindu philosophy in their teaching, some of the first missionaries took the same misleading approach.) In Kerala the Syro-Malabar church – regarded as the oldest in the country – has…
Hinduism Today KAUAI, HAWAII, October 24, 2007: HPI received a photo and report from a reader of a Hindu display at Thailand’s newly opened International Swarnbhumi Airport (Golden Land Airport). He writes: “I think it is one of the finest and best airports in the world. When I was returning and after going through the immigration, entered the departure area…