Source: www.hindustantimes.com KERALA, INDIA, September 29, 2009: A rock engraving, indicating clear remnants of Harappan culture, has been found in the Edakkal caves in neighboring Wayanad district, linking the Indus Valley civilization with South India. “There had been indications of remnants akin to the Indus Valley civilization in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, but these new findings give credence to the…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, September 27, 2009: In India’s remote north-east, the people of the state of Bihar have devised a novel and environmentally friendly way to cremate their dead. Where traditionally only the wood from a mango tree was used to fuel the funeral fire in this part of India, now people are making do with cow dung as…
Source: www.pib.nic.in HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS, September 24, 2009: The third regional “Mini-Pravasi Bharatiya Divas” was held in Hague to bring together members of the Indian Diaspora in Europe. It seeked a common platform to discuss their role in enhancing Indo-European cooperation in the fields of culture, heritage and tradition and explore the Indo-European Trade and Investment opportunities. The event was…
Source: www.hindustantimes.com VARANASI, INDIA, September 23, 2009: The likely successor to the Shankaracharya of northern and western India is very angry at popular web portal YouTube showing video clips of two ‘fake’ Shankaracharyas, one of who exhorts viewers to embrace Islam and the other explains why he converted to Islam. He is so enraged that he has decided to seek…
Source: www.thehindu.com VIJAYAWADA, INDIA, September 12, 2009: Katragadda Ravi is on a mission to promote the cultivation and use of organic brown rice in India, as one step towards encouraging the use of healthy foods. Mr. Ravi, a software engineer, returned from the US over three years ago to join his father, K. Ramesh, and start the organic cultivation of…
Source: www.uwf.edu HPI note: Thought the link to Prof.M. Lal Goel’s homepage was correct, a reader pointed out she could not easily identify which of his essays were a review of Wendy Doniger’s book “The Hindus: An Alternative History.” The “source” above provided today is a direct link to that document.
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com O God of mercy who performs the dance of illimitable happiness in the hall of inconceivable intelligence! The Rig and the other Vedas are thundering forth in words, announcing to us that all are thy slaves, all things belong to thee, all actions are thine, that thou pervades everywhere, that this is thy nature. Such is the teaching…
Source: www.boston.com BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, September 13, 2009: Reporters attending the annual convention of the Religion Newswriters Association boarded a pair of buses from downtown Minneapolis out to Maple Grove where, on 80 acres surrounded by farmland, the region’s Hindu community is completing work on one of the largest Hindu temples in the U.S. The Hindu Temple of Minnesota boasts a…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com AHMEDABAD, INDIA, September 29, 2009: Social networking sites are overflowing with posts on various garba events in the US, UK, Australia, Kenya and a host of other countries where Gujaratis have settled. The Indian community abroad coordinated their presence in Navaratri garbas using the web. From New Zealand’s Kiwi Cricket Club in Aukland to Leicester, UK-based Gujaratis across…
Source: www.uwf.edu/lgoel FLORIDA, US, Septemeber 8, 2009: Wendy Doniger, a historian at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has outraged Hindus in the past. In a 2002 article, the BBC stated “Professor Wendy Doniger is known for being rude, crude and very lewd in the hallowed portals of Sanskrit Academics. All her special works have revolved around the subject of…