samachar.com HYDERABAD, INDIA, March 17, 2007: This year, Telugu New Year, Ugadi, is mired in controversy with some religious heads, astrologers and even political parties warning the Andhra Pradesh government that celebrating it on Monday would spell doom for the state. A number of Agama religious schools say that Ugadi on Monday would be inauspicious as it is an amavasya…
vivekajyoti.blogspot.com DELHI, INDIA, March 20, 2007: The blog at the above URL has pointed out what is a form of the Christian cross on the reverse of India’s recently redesigned two-rupee coin. Click to the URL to see a photo of the coin. This type of cross is called “cross voided.” It is defined in Wikipedia, here, as a ”…
Press Release from the Explorers Club of Spain BARCELONA, SPAIN, March 16, 2007: Dr. S. Mohanambal who has lived in Barcelona, Spain for the last fifteen years was honored for her Ayurveda contributions in promoting the health and well-being of her patients. The award from the Explorers Club of Spain was presented to Dr. Mohanambal on March 16, 2007, in…
www.telegraph.co.uk VARANASI, INDIA, March 17, 2007: As the first rays of the morning sun fall upon the banks of the river Ganges at Varanasi, an old man in a loincloth raises his outstretched hands towards the slowly rising orb and bids it namaste, or welcome for another day. It is a scene which has repeated itself every day for more…
www.hindustantimes.in SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, March 17, 2007: Hinduism, one of the oldest religions of the world, is now a subject of study at the University of Sydney. Julian Droogan, a lecturer with the department of studies in religion, will take a group of his students for a tour of the local Sri Venkateswara temple to introduce them to the vibrant, dynamic…
purnima@shivayoga.org MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, March 16, 2007: (HPI note: The following press release is from Swami Shankarananda’s ashram.) In February Swami Shankaranand led a group of 60 Shiva Yogis from Melbourne, Australia to India. The group spent two weeks in Ganeshpuri in the ecstatic environs of Bhagawan Nityananda’s shrine and Baba Muktananda’s ashram. Thirty of the group then travelled to Kankhal,…
www.alternet.org UNITED STATES, March 15, 2007: Eating a plant-based diet is an easy, cheap way to end animal cruelty and clean up the environment. Why, then, are so many progressives still clinging to their chicken nuggets? The report released this week by the world’s leading climate scientists made no bones about it: Global warming is happening in a big way…
www.washingtonpost.com TIRUCHIRAPALLI, INDIA, March 14, 2007: (HPI note: This article appeared in the Washington Post, one of America’s leading newspapers.) Balaji, a Hindu priest, stood before the reclining god and offered a plate of coconut and bananas. His chest bare and his face adorned with red and yellow sacred paste, he set the food at the foot of a statue…
info@hindusangam.org.my KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, March 15, 2007: The Malaysia Court of Appeals recently ruled 2-1 that Subashini, wife of a Muslim-convert seeking to dissolve their marriage and convert their son to Islam, will have to state her case in the Syariah Court. The Malaysia Hindu Sangam President, Datuk A. Vaithilingam, has released the following press release. “With respect, it is…
sify.com JAMMU, KASHMIR, March 14, 2007: Pilgrimage to the Vaishno Devi shrine was stopped on Tuesday with weather conditions turning grim after the season’s first heavy snowfall in Trikuta hills of Jammu and Kashmir. Authorities have also begun evacuating over 5,000 stranded pilgrims at different places en route to the holy cave shrine from Katra in view of severe cold…