Source: www.ndtv.com KARNAVAS, INDIA, October 29, 2010: In Karnavas in Uttar Pradesh, street plays make frequent and reverent references to the dolphins in the Ganga. “What’s known as the dolphin in English is important to our ecosystem, our culture, but we are harming it,” says one of the performers. At another performance on a street corner, students chant excerpts from…
Source: tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com [HPI note: The New York Times’ upscale T magazine has a selective list of what the rich and the cool shouldd be doing this winter. The travel section includes skiing in the exclusive Courchevel region in France, enjoying the beat in Rio, staying at the best hotels of Buenos Aires and… pilgrimaging to Rameswar Temple, South India. Welcome…
Source: www.trinidadexpress.com TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, October 27, 2010: Divali is an important national celebration in Trinidad. Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism Winston Peters distributed cheques amounting to $4 million for the hosting of this year’s Divali celebrations across Trinidad and Tobago. The handing over took place at the ministry’s head office at Frederick Street, Port of Spain. Among the two…
Source: www.thehindu.com HYDERABAD, INDIA, November 6, 2010: Language learning has just gotten easier. In an instance of technology usefully deployed for the cause of culture, a non-resident Indian from the U.S. has designed a user-friendly language-learning application for mobile devices, intended primarily for the offspring of the Indian diaspora. Sreekanth Chintala, a Database Technology Strategist from Austin, Texas, U.S., conceptualized…
Source: www.newamerica.net UNITED STATES, October 13, 2010, by Phillip Longman: “The world faces a population bomb,” we often hear. Is it true? Yes, but it will be a boom of old people. It’s true that the world’s population overall will increase by roughly one-third over the next 40 years, from 6.9 to 9.1 billion, according to the U.N. Population Division.…
Source: HPI KAUAI, USA, November 19, 2010: Hinduism Today’s April/May/June edition will bring and Educational Insight on Japa, the repetition of a mantra. Submissions are needed and welcome: anything you think would enhance the piece: quotes from scripture, insights from swamis, personal testimony, uplifting short articles that might make for good sidebars. We also need good imagery. One idea that…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com As you pray to God for devotion, so also pray that you may not find fault with anyone. Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886)
Source: www.bbc.co.uk NORTHAMPTON, U.K., November 10, 2010: Plans for a US$19 million Hindu temple and community center in Northampton have been approved. The complex will include leisure facilities and a center to promote Anglo-Indian business and will use solar and geo-thermal pump technology. It will be called the Kutumbh Center and is being built by the Indian Hindu Welfare Organisation…
Source: www.washingtonpost.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 27, 2010: It was just past noon when dozens of mothers and daughters at India’s most luxurious mall sauntered right past the glittering showrooms of Jimmy Choo and Louis Vuitton and into a brunch celebrating the sari. India’s supercharged economy has brought a parade of posh international designers to the capital that offer miniskirts…
Source: www.dailypioneer.com INDIA, November 10, 2010: The Indians who came to attend the evening event that promised a good treat of Brazilian music were definitely surprised when the sound of Om Namah Shivaya echoed in the auditorium and greeted them. None of them would have thought that the woman in her late 20s and dressed in a perfect Western evening…