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Source Men who can brave death on the battlefield are common; but rare are they who can face an audience without fear. — Tirukural 723

Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, March 22, 2017: HPI Note: “Jews and Hindus in Indology” is in continuation of the lengthy critique of German Indology presented in The Nay Science by Vishwa Adluir (professor of religion as Hunter College) and Joydeep Bagchee Freie Universitat Berline). In this paper available on academia.edu (source above), they explore the particular situation of Jewish…

Source UTTARAKHAND, INDIA, March 21, 2017 (THe Tribune):Exercising extraordinary jurisdiction vested in the court, a division bench of Justices Rajeev Sharma and Alok Singh of the High Court said, “Holy rivers Ganga and Yamuna have been declared to be treated as living human entities.” Agreeing with advocate MC Pant, the court cited the example of river Whanganui in New Zealand…

Source Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practice even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action. — Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886), famed guru of Swami Vivekananda

Source BANGKOK, THAILAND, March 14, 2017 (South China Morning Post): Thailand’s best craftsmen are hard at work producing monuments to King Rama IX. “The graceful walk of Ratchasi (a mythical lion) implies that Thai people must move on after our late King Bhumibol Adulyadej passed away,” said sculptor Nopparat Bunmee. Craftsmen are now hard at work at the sculptural hall…

Source NEW JERSEY, U.S., March 13, 2017 (Press Release): Hindu students from all over the United States have expressed strong disappointment and opposition towards CNN’s “Believer” Episode on Hinduism, which aired on March 5th and showed a heavily derogatory and out-of-context depiction of Hinduism and India. In the episode, contributor Reza Aslan visits the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, India…

Source Do not run away. Face the world and get hit by the world. Let the world drop you again and again. It is the means to destroy the Ego. — Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993), founder of Chinmaya Mission

Source KAUAI, HAWAII, March 10, 2017: Hinduism Today’s latest issue has gone to press and is now available online free of charge at source above. You can also download our free Hinduism Today app and get the entire magazine (and seven back issues) on your mobile device at bit.ly/HT-APP. Our feature story this issue is a tour de force taking…

Source Dharma can be defined as the opposite of chaos, the order behind everything that exists. — Swami Satyananda Saraswati, head of Advaitavidya, Barcelona, Spain

Source UNITED STATES, March 9, 2017 (Indiafacts by Prashant Parikh): From colonial times, Indians have been characterized as predominantly savage, otherworldly, uncivilized, and by implication, in need of civilizing. These long perpetuated portrayals of Hindus did not remain merely confined to voluminous tomes and academic cliques, but rapidly percolated into the wider pop-cultural domain. This is quite evident through films…