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Source The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you who must raise your sails. — Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), celebrated Bengali writer

Source It is the unique and all-encompassing nature of Hinduism that one devotee may be worshiping Ganesha while his friend worships Subramaniam or Vishnu, and yet both honor the other’s choice and feel no sense of conflict. — Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today

Source SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, May 18, 2017 (Hindu Education Foundation): HPI ADDITION: The public hearing described in the news item below included public comments on the just released proposed programs of study for History-Social Science for grades K-8 in California schools. The programs, some of which will be printed books, but most or which are entirely web based, can be viewed…

KAUAI, HAWAII, May 27, 2017: Hinduism Today is planning a feature story on the stone carvers of Rajasthan and seeks assistance from the readers of HPI. We’re wanting to be put in touch with major carving sites, businesses and architects engaged in the extensive carving industry in Rajasthan. If you can help, kindly email Acharya Arumuganathaswami, Managing Editor, ar@hindu.org.

Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 26, 2017 (Indian Express): Animal markets — pashu haat or pashu mela as they are popularly known in many parts of the country — can no longer be used to sell or buy cattle for purposes of slaughtering them for meat. The Environment Ministry today issued new rules to regulate these animal markets with the…

Source To attain stillness of speech and thought at once is mauna. Mauna with speech alone is but a state of dumbness. Only when speech and thought are alike in mauna are you in a state of perfection. — Tirumantiram 1896

Source SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, May 18, 2017 (Hindu Education Foundation): Indian-American students and parents from across the state gathered at the California Department of Education (CDE) today to oppose the negative portrayal of Hinduism and India in proposed school textbooks. At the public hearing conducted by the Department, they expressed anguish at the recurring problem of adverse reflection of Hinduism and…

Source Hinduism is not a definite dogmatic creed, but a vast, complex and subtly unified mass of spiritual thought and realization. Its tradition of the Godward endeavor of the human spirit has been continuously enlarging through the ages. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), philosopher, statesmen and second President of India

Source ORLANDO, USA, May 17, 2017 (press release): The Mahatma Gandhi Center for Nonviolence, Human Rights and World Peace at the Hindu University of America is launching online Certificate, Masters and Doctoral program in Conflict, Peace and Hindu Philosophy (CPH) from July 2017. The program aims at enriching the discipline of Conflict and Peace Studies by providing a Hindu perspective.…

Source INDIA, May 23, 2017 (Slideshare by Arindam Bandyopadhyay): One of the most extraordinary examples of whitewashing of history is the sustained, continuing deletion of two centuries of massive recurrent, man made famine in British India from British and world history. How did these famines occur? The main reason was not bad weather or natural causes but rather the breaking…