Source: HPI PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, May 25, 2010 (By Paras Ramoutar): Trinidad and Tobago has elected its first female Prime Minister in the person of Mrs. Kamla Persad-Bissessar following elections held on Monday. She is a devout Hindu, and her People’s Partnership won 29 out of the 41 parliamentary seats. Persad-Bissessar is expected to swear in as Prime Minister…
Source: news.oneindia.in SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, May 16, 2010: A number of Kashmir Pandits offered rituals at the historic Vicharnag temple, when it reopened after a 20 year hiatus. Located in the district’s Soura city, once famous for being center of discourse and learning for Muslims and Hindus, the Vicharnag temple had closed in the 1990 when the Kashmiri Pandits migrated from…
Source: www.deccanchronicle.com CHENNAI, INDIA, May 22, 2010: Craig Venter’s laboratory cell violates the divine law of creation, says Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati, who believes that creating life in a laboratory is an act of defiance against God. “Venter’s work violates karma, which alone decides the nature of life for all humans and, besides, creating life in a lab could cause…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com CHENNAI, INDIA, May 22, 2010: This summer, ethnic wear seems to be the flavor of the season. Cutting across departmental stores, kurtis and other apparel are flying off the shelves with customers queuing up for the latest in comfortable Indian wear even while western designer labels fret over silhouettes and sizes for the domestic buyers. Max, the value…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Only one task to do here: find out who you are. How do you find out who you are? Dive into silence.
Source: www.dallasnews.com [HPI note: Today’s edition of HPI brings two articles about the same subject: new curriculum standards approved by the Texas State Board of Education. The contrast between the first article (from a Texan newspaper) and the second one (from a UK newspaper) makes for an enlightening comparison.] TEXAS, UNITED STATES, May 21, 2010: The Texas State Board of…
Source: www.guardian.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, May 16, 2020: Cynthia Dunbar, a conservative Texas lawyer, does not have a high regard for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional, tyrannical and tools of perversion. Now Dunbar is on the brink of fulfilling a promise to change all that, or at least point Texas schools toward salvation. She is one of a…
Source: edition.cnn.com INDIA, May 17, 2010: Tens of thousands of Indian couples tied the knot on Sunday May 16, one of the luckiest days in the Hindu calendar. “There are 50,000 weddings happening today” in Mumbai alone, said wedding planner Jarret D’Abreo of Marry Me. “The wedding that we are working on has been booked eight months in advance,” explained…
Source: ricerca.repubblica.it BARI, ITALY, April 28, 2010: The coast of Torre a Mare, a few kilometers from Bari, was transformed to look like Mauritius, or maybe, with a stretch of the imagination, like India. A ceremony was done in the temple dedicated to Murugan, the Murugan Kovil of Bari Torre a Mare, by the Tamil Mauritians of Pugliese, organized by…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com The older I get, the more Hindu I become. V.S. Naipaul, expatriate Trinidadian novelist, now living in UK, widely regarded in English literary circles as the best living writer in the English language.