Source LUCKNOW, INDIA, June 6, 2018 (Times of India): The UP government on Tuesday extended the status of sacred pilgrimage sites to five towns of Mathura district, thereby restricting the sale and consumption of alcohol in these places. The decision was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet which also okayed a modern Ram Katha Centre and art gallery…
Source UNITED STATES, June 9, 2018 (MSN): U.S. television studio ABC has apologized to Indian fans of its crime drama “Quantico” after an episode featuring Indian “nationalists” trying to frame Pakistan in a terrorist plot sparked online outrage against Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra, who plays a lead role in the show. “The episode has stirred a lot of emotion, much…
Source INDIA, June 1, 2018 (Swarajyamag, by Madhu Purnima Kishwar): As someone who studied in a convent school and whose mother also studied in a school run by Irish nuns in Peshawar, one could not help but have a benign view of the Christian community. Most middle-class people of our generation grew up believing that the Christian missions were sincerely…
Source BREMEN, GERMANY, June 5, 2018 (Kreiszeitung, translated from German): It was a moving day for the approximately 60 families of the Bremen Hindu community on Monday. Many of the community members , with their guests, gathered to celebrate a special ceremony in Osterholz on the grounds of the Ellener Village retirement home run by the Bremen Heimstiftung elder-care foundation.…
Source INDIA, June 6, 2018 (Swarajyamag): A judicial probe ordered by Odisha Chief Minister (CM) Naveen Patnaik into the mysterious case of keys to the inner chambers of Puri Jagannath Temple’s ratna bhandar going missing has failed to put a lid on a raging controversy over the temple’s treasures. Amidst growing rumors of, and public unrest over, the missing jewels…
Source Austerity is the powerful bath of fire and bright rays of showering light that washes the soul clean of the dross of its many past lives, and of the current life, which have held it in the bondage of ignorance, misgiving, unforgivingness and the self-perpetuating ignorance of the truths of the Sanatana Dharma. — Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder…
Source He is the Supreme Brahman, the Self of all, the chief foundation of this world, subtler than the subtle, eternal. That thou art; thou art That.— Atharva Veda, Kaivalya Upanishad
Source MALWA, INDIA, January 17, 2018 (Hindu Existence): The British ruled the Indian subcontinent for hundreds of years, and built many churches and cathedrals. But in the 1880s, a Shiva temple in Agar Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, was renovated by Lt. Col. Martin as per the wish of his wife — the only Shiva temple ever made by an Englishman in…
Source SINGAPORE, June 4, 2018 (Little India): India had a big role to play in the renovation and the consecration ceremony of the 148-year-old Sri Krishnan temple. Priests have been flown in from India for the ritual, which marks the start of the 48-day consecration process. Stones were also sourced from India to renovate the temple. Indian painters provided a…
Source SINGAPORE, June 4, 2018 (The New Paper): Waterloo Street was filled with the beating of drums and the patter of barefoot dancers yesterday morning as the Sri Krishnan Temple was unveiled in its fully restored glory after four years of works costing US$3 million. The 148-year-old Hindu temple, one of the oldest in Singapore, was re-sanctified in a consecration…