Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 15, 2019 (The Guardian): Winning a seat in India’s parliament can take months of gruelling campaigning across vast electorates, often in stifling heat. Unless you are George Baker. The award-winning actor from eastern India is one of just two members of the country’s 545-seat lower house whose name will not appear on any ballot in…
Source UNITED STATES, April 15, 2019 (USA Today): Two weeks after Red Robin became the largest restaurant chain to serve The Impossible Burger [a plant-based meat substitute] and Burger King announced the pilot of the Impossible Whopper [likewise] in St. Louis, two more restaurants announced Monday that they are joining the growing plant-based foods movement. Blaze Pizza is adding a…
Source UNITED STATES, February 6, 2019 (Business Insider): On Wednesday, meditation app Calm announced it has raised $88 million in a Series B financing round — taking its current valuation to $1 billion and making it the first so-called unicorn startup focused on meditation. The round brings Calm’s total funding to date to $116 million. Calm, which launched in 2012,…
Source To trust a man who has not been tested and to suspect a man who has proven trustworthy lead alike to endless ills. — Tirukural 510
KAUAI, HAWAII, April 16, 2019 (HPI): Hinduism Today magazine is doing a piece on the on-line presence of tools, teachers and organizations for learning Sanskrit. Kindly share with us any app you’re aware of that help you learn Sanskrit as well as any Web sites that feature Sanskrit or Devanagari learning. Email to: ar@hindu.org.
Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, April 15, 2019 (New York Times, by Erin Griffith): As an Aquarius, David Birnbaum is naturally skeptical of astrology. But as an investor, he has zero doubts about the business potential of the $2.1 billion “mystical services market.” It’s an area that he has been trying, unsuccessfully, to invest in for nearly two decades. Now…
Source LONDON, ENGLAND, April 16, 2019 (Press release from Hindu Forum of Britain): On April 8, the Government Ministry of House, Communities and Local Government issued their response to the Crematoria Provision and Facilities consultation. As a result of this response and the consultation which had been carried out earlier in 2016, the Ministry has presented a series of measures…
Source The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes we call by various names. Gold made into various ornaments we call by various names. But all the clothes are cotton and all the ornaments gold. The one is real; the many are mere names and forms.…
Source UNITED STATES, April 13, 2019 (CNN): For the first time “No Religion” has topped a survey of Americans’ religious identity according to a new analysis by a political scientist. The non-religious edged out Catholics and evangelicals in the long-running General Social Survey. Ryan Burge, a political scientist at Eastern Illinois University and a Baptist pastor, found that 23.1% of…
Source PURI, INDIA, April 10, 2019 (Odisha Bytes): In the wake of Supreme Court’s proposal to hand over the management of the Jagannath temple to the Shankaracharya of the Gobardhan Peeth in its recent hearing, the latter is of the view that from the spiritual and religious perspective, the management of the temple should remain in his charge. “There will…