San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
It is, of course, all a matter of scale. Perspective. Of allowing yourself and your sensibilities to be hammered to a bloody pulp by the hard fist of gluttonous reality, just for fun, and see if you can walk away with a shrug and a smile and without feeling...
BwT (Free subscription) | yesterday
Few more reasons to be Proud Indian. :angle: *Aryabhatta (476 CE) - Master astronomer and mathematician* ---Quote--- Born in 476 CE in Kusumpur ( Bihar ), Aryabhatta?s intellectual brilliance remapped the boundaries of mathematics and astronomy. In 499 CE, at the age of 23, he wrote a text on...
Hindu Press International (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
PREAH VIHEAR, CAMBODIA, July 24, 2008: Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen agreed Thursday not to refer both countries' ongoing land dispute to the UN Security Council, but resume to bilateral means to solve it, said a senior official. According to the premiers' oral agreement, both sides will initiate foreign minister negotiations on Monday in Siem Reap province...
Hindu Press International (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
ORISSA, INDIA, July 24, 2008: High in the monsoon mists in eastern India there is place called Golgola, home of the Dongria Kondh. Only 7,950 of them are left today. They have lived in the Niyamgiri hills in a remote part of eastern India's Orissa state for centuries and survive by gathering fruit, growing small crops of millet and selling jungle plants in the towns at the foot of the hills. The modern...
Hindu Press International (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
CALGARY, CANADA, July 17, 2008: The Hindu Society of Calgary held a Guru Purnima fundraising event on Friday, July 18. Guru Purnima is the full-moon day in the month of July, that recognizes the spiritual gurus, their teachings and their lives. To celebrate, a cultural program learned in the traditional guru shishya parampara (teacher-student tradition) method was planned, says Jayashree Thatte-Bhat,...
Hindu Press International (Free subscription) | yesterday
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, July 17, 2008: (HPI note: Fox News Atlanta's "I-Team" has produced a scathing investigative report of Dr. Commander Selvam and his "Hindu Temple of Georgia." The following is their introduction to the reports, which are available on the links below. HPI notes that this organization is not related in any way with the Hindu Temple of Atlanta.] You've probably heard a lot about the "Prosperity...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Of recent, there have been calls to make teaching of religion compulsory in primary schools. Religion is faith, belief, creed, conviction. Examples include Hinduism, Buddhism, Orthodox, Islam, Christianity, Animism, and Judaism. Even these have subdivisions. Christianity has Anglicans, Catholics and Pentecost's.
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1fgKXmNJrQ&feature=related While majority of Europe is conclusively turning into atheism, and in USA, atheists are increasing in number ( 8 to 12% from 1986 to 2005), in South Asia we are still in the grip of religious illusion of Islam and Hinduism. Here is the tally of atheists population. Sweden 86% Japan 56% France 54% UK 44% In USA, it is at 12% now from 8% in 1987...
The Point (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
From the Christian Science Monitor: More than 500 years after Spain's golden age of tolerance among Jews, Christians, and Muslims came to a definitive end, leaders of those faiths – as well as of Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism – are...
Singapore Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
It is a carnival type of gathering yesterday in the heartland. Residents and religious leaders comprise those from Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Sikhism, Baha’I Faith, Jainism, Zoroastrianism and Taoism participated. Stage programme emphasized on racial harmony and representatives from booths would explain and educate the residents of various religions. Performers… Guess of honour…the PM...
Hindu Press International (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
MUMBAI, INDIA, July 11, 2008: An estimated crowd of over a million people have walked together in the Waari -- a holy pilgrimage in Maharashtra that is perhaps the world's longest pilgrimage. Waari is undertaken in the Hindu month of Ashadhi Ekadashi. Every year, devotees walk along the 280 mile route from Alandi (near Pune) to Pandarpur (near Kolhapur) in Western Maharashtra. They walk to reach Pandharpur...
Hindu Press International (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
LONDON, ENGLAND, July 19, 2008: The president of a Hare Krishna temple in Letchmore Heath has been forced to resign after being found guilty of beating students in India. Gauri Das, president of Bhaktivedanta Manor, in Hilfield Lane, inflicted "inappropriate and excessive corporal punishment", according to a report published this week. The abuse occurred during his time teaching at the Vrndavana Gurukula...
Hindu Press International (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
WASHINGTON, DC, USA, July 18, 2008: "We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet," said former Vice-President Al Gore on Thursday. "Every bit of that's got to change." In his speech at an energy conference in Washington, Mr. Gore cited military-intelligence studies warning of "dangerous national security implications" tied to climate...
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
BASIC BELIEFS OF HINDUISM AND MUSLIMS 1-GOD 1-Religion 1-Holy Book Islaam Hinduism In Islam, belief in One God is the most important belief . Allah in Arabic refers to the One God. It is a known fact that every language has one or more terms that are used in reference to God and sometimes to lesser deities. This is not the case with Allah. Allah is the personal name of the One true God. Nothing else...
merinews - citizen powered media (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Acclaimed Hindu leader, Rajan Zed has called for an Ireland-wide boycott against Hollywood flick 'The Love Guru' by Hindus and other religious Irish because it lampoons Hinduism and Hindu concepts and uses Hindu terms frivolously.
