www.andhracafe.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 10, 2007: Leaders of several social groups from within the Hindu community, the Dalits included, were among the 4,000 who gathered at the open air theater in Pragati Maidan here Friday evening and took a pledge to end the caste divide that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar warned would harm India’s progress in the long run.…
www.himalayanacademy.com KAUAI, HAWAII, March 14, 2007: Under the Hindu kings, palm leaf manuscripts upon which are recorded Hinduism’s scriptures were recopied every 100 years or so to preserve them. Since British times, this process has ceased and existing manuscripts, even in the best-preserved collections, are deteriorating, some already to the point of uselessness. Microfilm is relatively expensive and requires bulky…
worldcongressps2008.org DELHI, INDIA, March 12, 2007: The World Congress on Psychology and Spirituality, 2008 will take place in Delhi beginning on January 5, 2008. Lama Samdhong Rinpoche, Prime Minister of Tibet-in Exile, will give the Inaugural Address on Dharma and Governance, on behalf of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. Keynote speakers will include B.K.S. Iyengar, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and…
The Toronto Star TORONTO, CANADA, March 3, 2007: Adrienne Duff noticed them three years ago, drifting in a Brampton branch of the Credit River. Clusters of flowers, plastic statues, coconuts–some still wrapped in plastic–even jewelry and money. “We started receiving calls from landowners, not just on Fletcher’s Creek but also in the main Credit area,” said Duff, a watershed-monitoring specialist…
www.nytimes.com SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, March 12, 2007: The picture on Page 95 of “An Age of Voyages: 1350-1600,” a seventh-grade history book used in California schools since last fall, had been unremarkable to state education officials: a stiff 19th-century portrait of a man with a trimmed beard holding a few beads and wearing a crown. But for Sikhs, that image of…
Rajiv Malik, HPI Correspondent NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 12, 2007: “Karan Singh : A Tryst With History, a Pictorial Biography” was launched with grand fanfare by Shri Pranab Mukherjee, India’s Union Minister For External Affairs, in the Rose Gardens of New Delhi’s India International Center on Friday, March 9, the 76th birthday of Dr. Karan Singh. In his foreword to…
www.time.com ALLAHADAD, INDIA, March 9, 2007: Time magazine photographer Prashant Panjiar has documented the recently held Ardh Kumbha Mela in a series of stunning black and white photos. The festival lasts 45 days at the confluence of three holy rivers, the Ganges, Yamuna and the esoterically mystical Saraswati. An estimated 70 million pilgrims gathered for this year’s festival and Panjiar’s…
minimela.com KAUAI, HAWAII, March 10, 2007: “Hinduism from Ancient Times” is the 16-page educational insight section in the April issue of Hinduism Today. It is a sixth grade social studies lesson in Hinduism, Hinduism Today’s response to the California textbook controversy. The intent is to present Hindu history in an accurate, academically sound and sensitive manner acceptable to the Hindu…
www.nytimes.com LONDON, ENGLAND, March 6, 2007: (HPI note: Genetic research is revising more than the history of ancient India.) Britain and Ireland are so thoroughly divided in their histories that there is no single word to refer to the inhabitants of both islands. Historians teach that they are mostly descended from different peoples: the Irish from the Celts, and the…
Mini Mela Gift Shop KAUAI, HAWAII, March 9, 2007: Himalayan Academy Publications, publisher of Hinduism Today and HPI, has collected over its 46 years an enormous archive of digital imagery. For decades the Hinduism Today staff photographed, scanned, collected, invented, designed, bartered and exchanged Hindu art. Working with gifted artists from India, Bali, Malaysia and anywhere talent could be found,…