Source: www.ptinews.com WASHINGTON, DC, USA, August 12, 2009: Appointed by the US President Barack Obama as a member of a faith-based advisory council of the White House, Anju Bhargava, a banker and a Hindu priest, hopes to remove the ignorance about Hinduism and spread the “real meaning” of the rituals associated with the religion. Forty two-year-old Bhargava, president of the…
Source: www.hindu.com CHENNAI, INDIA, August 6, 2009: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has requested the public to use only Ganesha statues made of raw clay during Vinayaka Chathurthi festival on August 23. The recent trend of immersing Ganeshas made with plaster-of-Paris, chemicals and paints has resulted in pollution of the water bodies. While the Board’s powers only apply to…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk RAWALPINDI, INDIA, August 11, 2009: For the last five decades, 80-year-old Indu Mitha has been teaching the beautiful and deeply religious Bharatanatyam dance to Pakistanis. Dance, it seems, can cross cultural and religious boundaries. Teaching traditional Indian dance in Pakistan required a delicate balancing act, which she successfully performed along her dance steps. Dance was considered “haraam” –…
Source: www.scribd.com KAUAI, HAWAII, August 16, 2009: In our effort to improve the teaching of Hindu and Indian history, Hinduism Today magazine has posted on the free site, scribd.com, a series of history books used in India. Clicking on the URL above will take you to the page where each can be read, or downloaded as a PDF file. They…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Culture without religion is tourism. Anonymous
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, philosopher and writer
Source: news.bbc.co.uk INDIA, August 14, 2009: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) decision to put India on a list of states which failed to protect religious minorities is “regrettable”, India’s foreign ministry says. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom says India was added to the list because of a “disturbing increase” in religious violence. Other countries on…
Source: newsweek.washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON, DC, USA, August 14, 2009 (By Aseem Shukla): [HPI note: this summary, edited for brevity, tries to bring you the most important points of this issue. We encourage you to read the original at source above.] This week, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) placed India on its “watch list.” By this designation, India,…
Source: www.hinduonnet.com BHUBANESHWAR, ORISSA, INDIA, August 14, 2009: Taking exception to a report by a US panel on global religious freedom placing India on the “Watch List” for violence, Christian leaders in Orissa on Friday said the majority community has been “extremely cordial” to them. “The civil society of the majority community has been extremely cordial and supportive of the…
Source: www.telegraphnepal.com NEPAL, August 11, 2009: Reports coming from Taulihawa have it that the signature campaign initiated by the Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal have so far failed to garner support in favor of re-declaration of the country as a Hindu State and referendum on Monarchy and Federalism. The local coordinator of the campaign, Mr. Bed Prasad Burma, told the Rajdhani Daily,…