Source JAMMU, INDIA, August 9, 2015 (Daily Excelsior): The incessant rains and cloud bursts have affected the holy Amarnath yatra. The rush has decreased to its lowest ebb with only 1548 pilgrims performing darshan of the Ice Lingam in the cave Shrine on the 39th day of darshan today. The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remained closed today. Also at Kheri near…
Source SRINAGAR,INDIA, August 10, 2015 (Daily Excelsior): Amid chanting of hymns and religious slogans, fresh batches of pilgrims today left Baltal and Nunwan Pahalgam base camps for Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, where about 339,000 pilgrims had paid obeisance since the 59-day-long yatra commenced on July 2. The annual yatra will conclude on August 29 when the Silver…
Source Like a tortoise withdrawing five limbs into its shell, those who restrain the five senses in one life will find safe shelter for seven.— Tirukkural 126
Press Release UNITED STATES, August 5, 2015 (HAF): Reports of anti-Hindu bias and bullying have increased in America’s schools. Hindu Americans, especially K-12 students, however, still lag behind other communities when it comes to reporting incidents of bullying and bias. To help address this disparity, the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) has partnered with the White House Initiative on Asian American…
Source FIJI, July 20, 2015 (Fiji Times): The local Gujarati communities are renowned for their commercial success and as published accounts relate, their origins in Fiji could be traced to Porbander in India. Located on the Kathiawar peninsula, the coastal town is more famously known as the birth place of Indian activist and spiritual leader Mohandas Gandhi. In a closer-to-home…
Source Hyderabad, INDIA, August 5, 2015 (Deccan Chronicle): Political backing for the expansion of religious structures on the city’s roads and pavements has become a major headache for the police department. Extensions of existing structures like dargahs (Islamic tomb), temples, chilla (Sufi), jhanda (Sikh) etc. might snowball into a law and order issue, but can be curbed if the problem…
Source After death, the soul goes to the next world bearing in mind the subtle impressions of its deeds, and after reaping their harvest returns again to this world of action. Thus, he who has desires continues subject to rebirth.— Shukla Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.4.6
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 3, 2015 (Daily Pioneer): India has once again successfully protected its traditional knowledge by preventing an attempt by Europe’s Pangaea Laboratories to take a patent on a medicinal composition containing turmeric, pine bark, and green tea for treating hair loss. A senior official from the Union Science and Technology Ministry said that the Traditional Knowledge…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 2, 2015 (Hindustan Times by Saaz Aggarwal): Punta Arenas, Chile, is one of the southern-most cities in the world. There was a time when every ship crossing from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Straits of Magellan or around Cabo de Hornos (Cape Horn) halted there. I first saw the name Punta Arenas on…
Source INDIA, August 2, 2015 (New Indian Express by Anuja Chandramouli): Having successfully completed a quintet of books skilfully chronicling the rise and fall of the Moghul Empire, Alex Rutherford is back with Traitors in the Shadows, which examines the reign of Aurangzeb, one of the most contradictory and vilified figures in Indian history. Rutherford is on familiar terrain and…