Source INDIA, May 20, 2011 (India Today): In March, Poonam, a 13-year-old Hindu girl kidnapped last year, was forced to convert in the Lyari area of Karachi in Pakistan’s Sindh province. Her parents were stunned by the influence the Islamic scholars had over their daughter. Poonam is now Mariam. No one protested against Poonam’s conversion because almost every Hindu family…
Source SOUTH AFRICA, June 4, 2011 (timeslive.co.za): Eleven couples, some of whom have been living together for as long as 17 years, tied the knot last Sunday at the Shree Veeraboga Emperumal Temple in Tongaat, north of Durban. The idea was initiated by Swami Saradaprabhananda of the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa, who found that there were many couples living…
Source INDIA, June 3, 2011: (by Chelsea Cooley, greenanswers.com) Those in the Chipko Movement are commonly referred to as “tree-huggers.” “Chipko” means literally “to embrace,” and these activists, a group made up mostly of village women, practice Gandhi’s method of non-violent resistance, satyagraha, by standing between trees and loggers, often literally embracing the trees. Chipko began in northern India’s Uttar…
Press Release THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS, June 16, 2011: The Woodlands area Hindus will open their newest temple, the only one on the north side of the city, on an 8-acre lot along tree-lined Woodlands Parkway this weekend. The 10,000-square-foot building has an unadorned stone exterior — to adhere to building codes – but will be home to the tradition’s colorful,…
Source INDIA, June 3, 2011: (by Reshmi Dasgupta, Economic Times) Luxury marketers are perceptive. It pays to give reverential acknowledgement to our sacred sentiments, especially with more and more Indians added to the international rich lists. The recently launched Caran d’Ache limited edition solid silver Balaji pen (adding to its Artiste collection repertoire of Buddha, Ganesha and Shiva) is one…
Source JAMMU, INDIA, June 6, 2011 (Times of India): As many as 213,000 pilgrims have registered themselves for the annual pilgrimage to the 13,500-feet-high cave shrine of Amarnath in the Himalayas in Jammu and Kashmir. The Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) began the registration process on May 10 for the yatra which will commence on June 29 and culminate on…
Source NEW DELHI, June 15, 2011 (IBN – CNN): It’s the season of hunger strikes and fasts unto death. Far from the spotlight though in the same hospital ICU as the better known Baba Ramdev, Swami Nigamanand has passed away. Swami had been fasting for two and a half months over illegal mining, looking to save the Ganga, While sadhus…
Source The skeptic says, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” The mystic says, “I’ll see it when I believe it.”
Source INDIA, June, 2011: (by Anand Kalyanaraman, The Hindu Business) To an observer, it would seem that the powerful and the wealthy are more susceptible to the superstition phenomenon. And omens, superstitions and quirks abound in stock markets. Here’s a list of some interesting ‘can’t-be-proven-but-it-exists’ phenomena which contribute to the song and dance on the stock markets in Mumbai. Well…
Source You are a being that has unlimited power within.— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today