Press Release MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, May 2011: In continuation of a 14 year tradition, this year the ICCT Memphis temple is performing Ashtottara Satakundatmaka Sri Rama Raksha Ashtakshari Maha Yagnam from May 25th to May 29th. The Yagnam is being performed with 108 Homakunds and 108 priests coming from various parts of the world and is under the blessings and guidance…
Source SOUTH AFRICA, April 23, 2011 (The Times Live): Thousands of Hindu devotees will visit temples this weekend in accordance with a practice started by indentured Indian sugar-cane labourers about 100 years ago. The Isipingo Mariamman Temple and the Shri Mariammen Temple in Mount Edgecombe will be bustling as devotees from across the country pay homage during the Easter week…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA April 18, 2011 (Telegraph India): Mariners from India’s east coast exploited monsoon winds to sail to southeast Asia more than 2,000 years ago, an archaeologist has proposed, challenging a long-standing view that a Greek navigator had discovered monsoon winds. Sila Tripati at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, has combined archaeological, meteorological, and literary data…
Source ABBOTSFORD, BC, CANADA, May 3, 2011 (The Times of Canada) :An Abbotsford Hindu temple suffered an estimated $250,000 in damages after a fire on Wednesday morning. Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service was called out to the Fraser Valley Hindu Society Temple at around 10:45 a.m. Fire crews arrived to find smoke and fire coming from the rear of the one-storey…
Source When culture is flooding out of the temple, our actions are productive and our minds are creative, our speech is pure, our hearts rejoice and we become good citizens. Religion makes us good citizens, because we are peaceful inside and want peace in our land. Peace comes first from the individual. It is unrealistic to expect peace from our…
HPI KAUAI, HI, May 4, 2011: Most of our readers know how dynamic the Hindu world is. HPI reflects this, and our summaries cover a wide variety of news and subjects. Only one feature of HPI is constant: the Daily Inspiration quote. HPI has just added over 1,800 quotes to our database, all of them vetted by our editors when…
Source PANJAL, KERALA, April 9, 2011 (Daily India): Michio Yano, a professor of Sanskrit and Indian cultural history at Japan’s Kyoto Sangyo University, attended Athirathram being held in Panjal village in Kerala. He attended the 3000-year old vedic ritual to collect input for his new book in Japanese titled ‘Inspiration of Indian Mathematics’. “There will be a chapter on most…
Source KARNATAKA, INDIA, April 2011 (The Hindu): As many as 1,600 organic farmers from Karnataka will now get to visit Cuba to learn about that country’s achievements in organic farming. The Karnataka State Organic Farming Mission, which is organizing the trip, has chosen four organic farmers from each taluk for the trip. The mission had prescribed various guidelines to ensure…
Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, April 18, 2011 (The Deccan Herald): Leading spiritual personality and principal of Ramkrishna Mission movement in Bangladesh, Swami Aksharananda, died here today after prolonged illness at the age of 82. “Principal of Dhaka Ramkrishna Math (monastery) and Ramkrishna Mission breathed his last today at (Dhaka’s) Apollo Hospital,” the Mission said in an announcement. Born at Khurda village…
Source The world is divided into two kinds of people: the wise and the otherwise.