WASHINGTON, D.C. March 2, 2022 (Pew Forum): More than half a century ago, India was one of the first countries in the world to elect a woman as prime minister, and the country currently has several highly influential women politicians, including Sonia Gandhi, the head of one of the major national parties. Today, most Indians say that “women and men…
BALI, INDONESIA, February 27, 2022 (Balidiscovery.com): Nyepi is 24 hours of absolute silence imposed on the island of Bali from 6:00 am on Thursday, March 3, 2022, until 6:00 am the following morning. During this period, Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport is closed to all flights; the seaports closed, ferry services suspended, people confined to their homes, and tourists are not…
Published: Mar 01, 2022 09:26 AM BALI, INDONESIA, March 1, 2022 (Xinhua): HPI note: This is a set of three colorful photos of the event before the “Day of Silence.” The first shows them praying on Cangu Beach in Bali, the second, another angle of the event and the third (above), shows the worship out on an ocean-side rock. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202203/1253553.shtml
UNITED KINGDOM, February 24, 2022 (Palatinate): Durham University’s Oriental Museum is reviving Holi celebrations after two years of the pandemic restricting activities. Celebrations will be taking place on Saturday 12 March, 12-5pm. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colors, is the Indian Spring Festival. It is a two-day Hindu festival which originated in India, and celebrates the triumph of…
MANITOBA, CANADA, February 16, 2022 (Manitoba Education): A 126-page Canadian resource guide on Hinduism for grade 12 World Religions was released in 2019 for Manitoba province schools. It has excellen tchapters on: What is Hinduism, Key Writings and Scriptures, Foundational Beliefs, Concepts and Ideas, Historical Figures, Practices, Rituals, Symbols, and Celebrations, Modern Hinduism Challenges, and much more. It explains that…
KARACHI, PAKISTAN, February 8, 2022 (Restofworld.org): Jiaming Luo grew up in mainland China thinking about neglected languages. When he was younger, he wondered why the different languages his mother and father spoke were often lumped together as Chinese “dialects.” When he became a computer science doctoral student at MIT in 2015, his interest collided with his advisor’s long-standing fascination with…
NEPAL, February 7, 2022 (Press Release, by Tenzin Norbu): During the pandemic Nepal has invested a lot of energy in building world class hotels, resorts, and guesthouses. Roads are now improved and plantations have been started. Many people are more conscious of the environment and concerned with producing less carbon. Nepal is now open to tourists. You can get the…
INDIA, February 4, 2022 (First Post): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the 216-foot-tall “Statue of Equality” in Hyderabad to commemorate the 11th-century Bhakti Saint Sri Ramanujacharya. Saint Ramanujacharya was born in 1017 in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu to mother Kanthimathi and father Asuri Kesava Somayaji. Saint Ramanujacharya fought for social, cultural, gender, educational and economic discrimination with the…
DUBAI, February 7, 2022 (Trade Arabia): A prayer service was recently held at the construction site of Dubai’s newest Hindu temple in Jebel Ali to mark the construction top-up ceremony. The new temple is being constructed adjacent to the Guru Nanak Darbar in Jebel Ali, making the locality a multi-religious corridor in Dubai. With the trial opening scheduled for July-August…
AUSTRALIA, Feb. 6, 2022 (Press Release, Hindu Council of Australia): A religious freedom bill has been introduced in the federal parliament to make discrimination on the basis of religion illegal. People of faith will not be discriminated against because of their faith or for not having one. However, the bill has created many exemptions. It allows discrimination based on religion…