www.contracostatimes.com LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA, USA, November 30, 2006: The Shiva-Vishnu Temple in Livermore is holding a open house and a celebration on Saturday — the Geeta Jayanti Celebration –, and is inviting the whole community. Prabha Duneja, one of the organizers, also sees it as a retreat. She will lead a guided meditation, which she described as a “journey to the…
www.canada.com VANCOUVER, CANADA, November 30, 2066: Sri Lankan-born Anusha Fernando has studied bharata natyam for 18 years. Now, she is performing her art in Vancouver in a play called Gods, Demons & Yogis. Bharata natyam is arguably the most popular of all the ancient, temple-based dance arts of the Indian subcontinent. First the domain of female deva-dasis (servants of the…
www.indiatoday.com CHANDIGARH, INDIA, November 20, 2006: At the Lal Chand Research Library, DAV College, Chandigarh, over 8,360 ancient manuscripts and 9,000 rare books are being given a new lease on life. Literally smuggled out from Lahore’s DAV College in 1947, the rare documents were divide into two lots: a warehouse in Amritsar and an ashram in Hoshiapur before being brought…
www.malaysianhindusangam.com KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, November 29, 2006: The following letter was sent by President A. Vaithilingam, Malaysian Hindu Sangam, to Y.B. Datuk Mustapa bin Mohamed, Malaysian Minister of High Education: “The Malaysia Hindu Sangam notes with great regret the attitude of University Technology Malaysia, Skudai for its attempts to destroy a more than 100 year old Sri Muthu Mariamman Temple…
www.nytimes.com CARDIFF, WALES, November 29, 2006: A century ago, pieces of a strange mechanism with bronze gears and dials were recovered from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece. Historians of science concluded that this was an instrument that calculated and illustrated astronomical information, particularly phases of the Moon and planetary motions, in the second century B.C. The Antikythera…
actualidad.terra.es VALENCIA, SPAIN, November 29, 2006: An intimate merging of Indian music, incense and reverence. That was how the first Hindu Temple in Valencia, located in the central Plaza del Patriarca, was inaugurated on November 23rd. The director, Swami Omkarananda, stated that this place has been created with “sharing” as the goal. After more than twenty years of teaching yoga…
news.bbc.co.uk PUNE, INDIA, November 17, 2006: Scientists from New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology under the leadership of Dr. PR Mukund, a professor of electronic engineering, are tackling a project to digitally restore the Sarvamoola Grantha that was written in Sanskrit by Sri Madvacharya (1238 – 1317 AD). Sri Madvacharya is reputed as one of India’s greatest theologians who wrote…
www.americanhindu.net MADISON, WISCONSIN, USA, November 25, 2006: American Hindu Association has launched a Hindu Cultural Hour – a first in the state of Wisconsin. The Hindu Cultural Hour will be a weekly television show broadcasting from WYOU-TV, Madison, Wisconsin. The American Hindu Association presents the Hindu Perspectives, a TV series shown at 8:00 p.m. and their new show, the Hindu…
www.ibnlive.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 24, 2006: Environment and Forest Minister A. Raja announced on November 24 that additional funding to the tune of Rs 7000 crore would be needed to continue cleaning up the sacred River Ganga. So far Raja explained that Rs 1387 crore has been spent on the cleanup and that 237 industries have been closed down…
www.hindustantimes.com BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, November 26, 2006: Security was increased on Saturday at the 18th century Jagannath temple at Keradagarh after a court banned the entry of devotees following a public suit seeking protection for Dalits who planned to enter the shrine defying an ancient ban. Akhya Kumar Mallik had filed a public interest petition in the Orissa High Court in…