Source: www.forumforhinduawakening.org NEW JERSEY, USA, October 4, 2009: The first-ever Hinduism Summit (Hindu Dharma Sabha) in the NJ-NY-PA tristate area will be held by the Forum for Hindu Awakening and the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS), with support from Hindu and spiritual organizations. The Hinduism Summit will be held on October 24 at the Marathi Vishwa Community Center. The Hinduism Summit…
Source: wii.ign.com TORONTO, CANADA, September 24, 2009: The new game “Yoga” for Wii incorporates specialized hatha yoga routines for health. “In designing Yoga for Wii, we wanted to make sure that players are walking away with not only a great workout for the body but also for the mind,” says Markus Reutner, Marketing manager JoWood Productions. “We’ve done extensive research…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Children, love can accomplish anything and everything. Love can cure diseases. Love can heal wounded hearts and transform human minds. Mata Amritanandamayi Ma, or Ammachi, founder of many social, educational and medical charities
Source: Religion News Service [HPI note: This is interesting to Hindus as representative of the developments of allowing ¬†religious identity in European classroom. Not long ago, a Hindu girl had problems for expressing her religion in the form of a nose ring.] BERLIN, GERMANY, September 29, 2009: German religious freedom laws require a school to let a devout Muslim student…
Source: Religion News Service BERLIN, GERMANY, September 29, 2009: German religious freedom laws require a school to let a devout Muslim student set aside some time during the school day for prayers, a Berlin court ruled. The 16-year old student had argued that he had already compromised with the school by limiting the number of prayers during the school day…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk LEICESTER, UK, October 5, 2009: Thousands of people visited Leicester for the turning on of the Belgrave Road Diwali lights, one of the biggest such celebrations outside India. Lord Mayor Roger Blackmore performed the ceremony on Sunday evening, which was followed by a fireworks display. The city’s celebrations of the Hindu festival of light are thought to be…
Source: www.ft.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 30, 2009: The Swiss penmaker Montblanc has unveiled a gold-and-silver fountain pen to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi. The limited-edition pen, priced at US$23,000, has an 18-carat solid gold, rhodium-plated nib, engraved with Gandhi’s image, and “a saffron-coloured mandarin garnet” on the clip. Dilip R. Doshi, chairman of Entrack, Montblanc’s distributor in India, said the pen…
Source: www.indiawest.com UNITED STATES, August 20, 2009: A Democratic Party activist and a U.S. Army soldier currently deployed in Afghanistan have co-founded Hindu Democrats, a Virginia-based political action committee aiming “to mobilize the Indian American bloc in the United States” to support Democratic Party candidates through the “representation of Hindu American values in American politics.” Hindu Democrats executive director and…
Source: www.trinidadexpress.com TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, October 3, 2009: Ramleela, the burning of the evil king Ravana, is a symbolic victory of good over evil. The dramatic enactment of the Hindu sacred text, the Ramayan, is a ten-day annual event that precedes Divali, celebrated this year on October 17. Secretary of the National Ramleela Council, Indra Pooran, said the community festival…
Source: Religion News Service [HPI note: This is interesting to Hindus as representative of the developments of allowing ¬†religious identity in European classroom. Not long ago, a Hindu girl had problems for expressing her religion by wearing a nose ring.] BERLIN, GERMANY, September 29, 2009: German religious freedom laws require a school to let a devout Muslim student set aside…