Source: www.demotix.com LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, August 8, 2010: Thousands attended the annual Chariot Festival from the Tamil Hindu Temple in West Ealing this morning, a colorful event in the streets around the temple. The celebration comes close to the end of their Mahotsavam festival which lasts for around four weeks. Around ten thousand people were expected to attend for the…
Source: www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 6, 2010: Weddings are all about compromise. City or country? June or November? My religion or yours? For Chelsea Clinton, a vegetarian, it was the decision to serve meat to the guests at her July 31 wedding. By choosing to have meat, she re-ignited a sensitive wedding-season debate among ethical eaters and the…
Source: sify.com JAIPUR, INDIA, August 13, 2010: A colorful procession of the Deity Parvati on the occasion of the Teej festival attracted scores of people here on Thursday. Thousands of locals and hundreds of foreign tourists congregated along the streets to witness the traditional procession of the festival. The festival — in which married Hindu women pray to Goddess Parvati…
Source: www.dnaindia.com WASHINGTON, D.C., August 2, 2010: The small Kashmiri pandit community in the U.S. have decided to establish their first cultural center to provide a platform to showcase the richness of Kashmir’s Hindu heritage. The decision was reached at the recently concluded Third Annual camp of Kashmiri pandits in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California, which was attended…
Source: www.indianexpress.com INDIA, August 13, 2010: The Pune police will deport five South Koreans, including three women, who had been propagating Christianity while on student and tourist visas. The police said the five had gone from door to door distributing pamphlets in Pimpri-Chinchwad on Wednesday, leading to a brawl with a group of local Hindu activists. The Koreans have not…
Source: www.washingtonpost.com CHENNAI, INDIA, June 21, 2010: Even in India’s most traditional cities, a powerful new profession has arrived: the divorce lawyer. Divorce rates are rising in India as the fast-growing economy unleashes unprecedented financial freedoms and mobility, especially among women and young city dwellers. But divorce cases often drag on for years, clogging already backlogged courts and causing painful…
Source: www.nytimes.com PAKISTAN, August 19, 2010: The Indus Valley is going through the worst flood on record for the Indus River. When the water recedes, the people will, if they are lucky enough to have any, sell their cattle and their wives’ ornaments, their dowry gold, to rebuild the watercourses and to level the fields. Some will plant winter wheat,…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com O Mother! Let all my speech be your prayer; let all my crafts and technology be your worship and be the mystic gestures of my hand, adorning you. May all my movements become your devotional circumambulations. May everything I eat or drink be oblations to you. Let my lying down in rest and sleep be prostrations to you.…
Source: www.hindustantimes.com MUMBAI, INDIA, August 14, 2010: Half the men who shape the Ganesha murtis in the city have been struck down by malaria. The clay and plaster of Paris strewn around and inevitable pools of stagnant water around the workshops, make them ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes. This year, a number of murti makers are suffering its effects. Ganapati…
Source: Religion News Service UNITED STATES, July 21, 2010: A proposed bill aims to put a stop to teacher-administered spanking, making corporal punishment illegal in any school — including private religious ones — that receives even a trickle of federal funding. Religious school groups, usually quick to guard against government encroachment, have few worries about the bill because officials said…