www.siliconindia.com LONDON, ENGLAND, May 12, 2009: Indian-born MP Virendra Sharma has pointed out that the Equality Bill currently under discussion in Parliament needs to address the caste-based discrimination among South Asians in Britain. As written, the bill aims to consolidate nine existing equality laws into a single law banning discrimination based on race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or…
blog.taragana.com PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, May 9, 2009: – A Hindu prayer started off the inauguration of South African President Jacob Zuma at the Union Buildings on Saturday. As Indian Vice-President Hamid Ansari joined heads of state of 28 other countries, South African Hindu Maha Sabha president Ashwin Trikamjee recited a few lines in Sanskrit before translating them into English and…
Doctors said the fire ritual was another manifestation of the Hippocratic oath that they took the day they had stepped into the profession, to work for the good health and cause of all humanity. “All the doctors perform the treatment but behind the hand of the God is omnipresent and every one believes in this statement. This is the reason…
www.la-croix.com BOBIGNY, FRANCE: A Hindu temple in La Courneuve suffered minor damage in a Molotov cocktail attack Monday night, quickly following an attack against the Bourget International Buddhist Center. Police have arrested four young men of Sri Lankan origin who are suspects in this latest attack. Sunday evening, several windows at the Buddhist temple were broken by 7 or 8…
www.hinduismtoday.com “Yoga is love. It is nonviolence at the extreme edge.” Mahatma Gandhi
www.kantipuronline.com DAILEKH, INDIA, April 29, 2009: Protesting a recent verdict of the district court, brahmin priests in Dailekh have padlocked a dozen temples including Batukbhairav Temple, Ganesh Temple, Narayan Temple and Dheleshwormahadev Temple. The protested verdict was given April 12, when the court sentenced Dipak Upadhyay for refusing raksha bandhan (the holy thread tied around the wrist on Janaipurnima day)…
www.americamagazine.org CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, MAY 8, 2009: On May 3, Swami Sarvagatananda, a senior monk of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society and long-time head of the Vedanta Society in Boston, died at the age of 96. Born in 1912, Swami Sarvagatananda joined the Ramakrishna Order in 1935, received mantra-diksha from Revered Swami Akhandananda Maharaj in 1936, and sannyasa (renunciation vows) from Revered…
www.sambodh.us KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN, USA: The Sambodh Society, Inc., and the Sambodh Center for Human Excellence will celebrate the 7th Annual Rudrabhisheka and Chandi Homa program on Saturday and Sunday, May 16 and 17, 2009. Swami Bodhananda Saraswati, Founder and Spiritual Director of the Center, will preside over the occasion. The religious ceremonies will be conducted by Sree Aswath of Columbus,…
www.hinduismtoday.com I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will really be happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Albert Schweitzer(1875-1965)
www.hinduismtoday.com It is a gift of God to see ourselves as others see us. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)