www.thestatesman.net KENDRAPARA, ORISSSA, January 28, 2007: After weeks of discord and strife that had threatened civil order, the dispute over Dalits’ rights to have darshan (view of the Deity) at the Jagannath temple in Keredagada was finally settled today with the lower caste Hindus marching their way to the 300-year-old shrine. “We are happy to know that people have buried…
www.rxpgnews.com AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, January 28, 2007: Many similarities can be found between Sanskrit, the classical language of India, and Maori, the language and tradition of the indigenous people of New Zealand, according to an Indian scientist. In fact, some Hindu cultural facets are more similar to Maori than most people realize, says senior scientist Dr Guna Magesan, who moved…
www.nst.com.my KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, January 25, 2007: (HPI note: A kavadi is a decorated wood arch carried in procession during the festival of Thaipusam honoring Lord Murugan. Pots of milk are carried on each end of the arch and offered to the Deity upon arrival at the temple. Kavadi range in size from small to large affairs weighing over 100…
www.crosswalk.com ALLAHABAD, INDIA, January 24, 2007: (HPI note: This report is from a Christian missionary news service and should be read with that in mind. A search of Google News finds no other report of this incident.) According to ASSIST News Service, Gospel for Asia (GFA) native missionaries in India — including a state leader — have been driven away,…
cbs13.com USA, January 26, 2006: Cathie and Harold Winters like a good steak. “We’re a meat eating family,” Cathie said. But their 12-year-old son Dean is not interested. When mom and dad eat steak, he has a protein substitute. Dean has been a vegetarian since he was in first grade. “I love animals a whole lot, and I really don’t…
www.rxpgnews.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 24, 2007: After a winter of discontent, Nepal’s ‘suspended’ King Gyanendra kept his date with religion, making his first public appearance since a new constitution divested him of his remaining executive position as head of state. The king Tuesday appeared at the capital’s public square, where an ancient palace stands as a tribute to the omnipotence…
www.signonsandiego.com BANGALORE, INDIA, January 22, 2007: Federal police were deployed and schools were shut in India’s technology hub of Bangalore on Monday after communal rioting between Hindus and Muslims left one 12-year-old boy dead and dozens of people hurt. Protests by thousands of Muslims against last month’s execution of Saddam Hussein in Iraq sparked a chain of violence over the…
prithivi76_s@yahoo.co.uk CHENNAI, INDIA, January 23, 2007: The following report was submitted by Prithiviraj of Chinmaya Mission on their one-week youth camp in Coimbatore which concluded on January 1, 2007: Soft morning sunshine and the warmth of the 1,008 names of Prabhu welcomed our hearts to a new day, a new year and a new beginning. Seven days, seven powers, one…
www.organiser.org DEHRADUN, INDIA, January 21, 2007: All India president of Shri Guruji Birth Centenary Celebration Committee and founder of Bharatmata Mandir, Haridwar, Swami Satyamitranand Giri has called upon the Hindus to defend Hinduism themselves and remove their shortcomings. He was addressing a massive gathering in Dehradun recently. It was the biggest Hindu sammelan held in the State capital during the…
www.newyorker.com NEW YORK, U.S., September 25, 2006: (HPI note: This article appeared in the “Talk of the Town” section of the famed New Yorker magazine. Swami Bua is reputed to be 115 years old. We can’t vouch for that precisely, but when we first met him in Paris in 1969 — 38 years ago — he was already an elderly…