HPI KAUAI, HAWAII, September 24, 2007: Many readers queried us as to the contents of yesterday’s HPI. By mistake, in addition to the first three edited items, it contained a number of unedited reports and input from various sources, all of which will, in the course of time, appear as edited summaries.
www.indiatoday.com DELHI, INDIA, October 15, 2007: “Up in space, the Gita and Ganesha were what kept me grounded. They put life in perspective,” says Sunita Williams in her India Today interview. In a country that believes that beauty trophies are a genetic right, they are calling her the true Miss Universe. But when she strides into the room with her…
www.washingtonpost.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 18, 2007: Hidden in a tightly packed neighborhood of middle-class condominiums, Chinese restaurants and garment sweatshops is a thriving 3,500-year-old Hindu tradition. It is a residential school that teaches young boys the art of chanting Hindu verses in classical Sanskrit and trains them to become Hindu priests. For eight years, they study religious rituals without…
Religion News Service OHIO, USA: October 23, 2007: (HPI note: “Dowry” in this case was a payment from the husband to the wife.) A dowry arrangement made by a Muslim couple is a religious agreement and not a legal contract, and therefore not enforceable by the courts, an Ohio judge has ruled. When Raghad Alwattar and Mohammed Zawahiri agreed to…
news.webindia123.com NEW DELHI, October 13, 2007: Spain’s autonomous Andalucia region is to assist Unesco in preserving the cultural heritage of the Hindu holy town of Varanasi and to ensure the development of its urban areas on scientific lines. The region’s vice president, Gaspar Zarrias, told reporters here Friday, “We will be providing technical assistance to Unesco to create an electronic…
www.woodlandshindutemple.org WOODLANDS, TEXAS, October 17, 2007: Hindus are celebrating as the conceptual design has been approved for a new Hindu temple in the Houston area. The location is in a far northern suburb, The Woodlands, a planned community, on 8.35 acres of wooded land and located adjacent to a beautiful community park. There will be a temple to conduct religious,…
www.ivarta.com October 22, 2007: HPI has just come across a marvelous summary of DNA evidence with regard to the Aryan Invasion Theory collected by Dr. S. Kalyanaraman and posted in December, 2005. Below is an excerpt quoting a scientific paper on the origin of Indians, with the full text available at the URL above. This particular research contradicts two key…
www.indiaprwire.com MUMBAI, INDIA, October 19, 2007: (HPI note: The following press release comes from the organizers of the this campaign for McDonalds India. In part, they enthusiastically describe a marketing strategy to connect their 3D animation film, Bal Ganesh, with McDonalds restaurants. Click here for the film’s website.) Shemaroo Entertainment in a special tie up with Crosswords book store for…
office@hafsite.org WASHINGTON, D.C., October 20, 2007: The Hindu American Foundation has received a request from the Federal Mental Health Services. They are seeking a knowledgeable Hindu representative. If you are interested, or can recommend someone, kindly contact e-mail above. The request reads: “We are currently working with the national Suicide Prevention Resource Center to develop an Interfaith Suicide Prevention Initiative.…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 12, 2007: Experts say the way women in India are brought up explains why only one in four abused women seek help to try and end the violence. Only 2% of the abused women sought intervention from the police. G C Chaturvedi, director, National Rural Health Mission, said, ”In India, the worst problem we face…