HPI Correspondent Paras Ramoutar TRINIDAD/TOBAGO, September 6, 2020 (HPI by Paras Ramoutar): The annual Divali Nagar is another casualty of Covid-19 in Trinidad and Tobago, according to Deokienanan Sharma, chairman of the National Council of Indian Culture(NCIC). Divali Nagar was supposed to take place from Thursday November 5 to Friday November 13, a day before the annual Festival of Lights,…
Source UNITED STATES, August 30, 2020 (India Herald): REFLECTIONS@50: WALKING IN DHARMA is a power packed virtual conference to be held on Sept 19-20, 2020 to commemorate Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America’s 50 years of fostering the Hindu socio-cultural-spiritual movement in Americas. Organized by the World Hindu Council of America (VHPA), the 2-day conference is a community outreach effort toward…
Source INDIA, August 6, 2020 (Swarajyamag by M. Nageswara Rao): India is a unique country. What makes it bizarrely unique is that the Constitution denies the majority indigenous Hindus the same rights as those given to the minority non-Hindus. This reduces Hindus to a form of second-class citizens in their own secular country, created after a faith-based partition of their…
Source The greatest service one can do for people is to help them experience God.— Swami Omkarananda (1930-2000), founder of Omkarananda Ashram, Rishikesh
Source SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, September 3, 2020 (Courthouse News): The Ninth Circuit on Thursday nixed a constitutional challenge over how Hinduism is portrayed in California public schools. The three-judge panel found no basis to conclude that the California Board of Education discriminated against Hinduism when it drafted new education guidelines in July 2016 that adopted allegedly anti-Hindu recommendations from a…
Source LONDON, ENGLAND, August 31, 2020 (kreately.in by Lakshmi Kaul): I noticed a sudden explosion of social media posts boasting of learning a new skill or a language. It almost felt unreal when I saw many youngsters flaunting having learned Sanskrit. The image though of a Sanskrit class is rather conflicting as I think of our millennials learning this indic…
Source Love is seeing and feeling life everywhere. When your heart is full of love, you sense life pulsating through all creation.— Mata Amritanandamayi Ma, Kerala-based hugging saint
Source TORONTO, CANADA, August 27, 2020 (Kreately by Tushar Unadkat): As parents, we need to ask ourselves whether our children in North America have access to the deep-rooted knowledge of dharma? What makes them distant from Hinduism? Some young Hindus say that they are leaving the faith for science, believing that Hinduism is incompatible with what they are learning in…
Source At a national and international level, we will enjoy more peace as we become more tolerant. Religious leaders can help by teaching their congregations how to live in a world of differences without feeling threatened, without forcing their ways or will on others. World bodies can make laws which deplore and work to prevent crimes of violence. It is…
Source YUBA CITY, CALIFORNIA, August 25, 2020 (Temple of the Divine Mother, Inc., by Swami Satyananda Saraswati): This year 2020 has been the most challenging year I think any of us have ever experienced – from the Covid-19 pandemic, to rioting in the streets, and now to the California wildfires. Tragedy struck over the weekend and yesterday we found that…