UNITED STATES, July 11, 2024 (The Atlantic): Anthony Bourdain was beloved for his openness to new experiences, for his willingness to eat anything—brains; shark; cobra heart, still beating—with anyone. But he did reserve one bias: The man hated vegetarians. “Serious cooks regard these members of the dining public—and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans—as enemies of everything that’s good and…
INDIA, January 27, 2024 (Live Mint):The Vishwa Hindu Parishad on 27 January claimed the Archeological Survey of India’s report has reconfirmed that the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi was constructed after demolishing a magnificent temple at the site, reported news agency PTI. The VHP also sought the structure be declared a Hindu temple and handed over to the community. It demanded…
KAUAI, HAWAII, July 10, 2024 (Hinduism Today, by Ravindran Raman Kutty): Humans have always depended on the environment for survival, obtaining resources such as fruits, grains, water, fire, minerals and wood from nature. In Hinduism, it is believed that the five elements of nature (water, fire, earth, air and space) are of utmost importance and must be used in the…
PURI, INDIA, July 8, 2024 (India): Hundreds of thousands of people pulled giant chariots from the 12th-century Jagannath temple in Puri towards Gundicha temple, around 1.5 miles away, as Rath Yatra festivities began in Odisha on Sunday. The yatra started around 5.20 pm after Puri Shankaracharya Swami Nischalanada Saraswati visited the chariots of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra…
HAMM, GERMANY, July 7, 2024 (www.wa.de, Google translated from German): The Sri Kamadchi Ampal Temple was inaugurated on July 7, 2002. Since then, the annual temple festival has been one of the highlights of the Hindu community and again attracted thousands of visitors from home and abroad on Sunday. Uentrop–The big parade, in which the Goddess Sri Kamadchi Ampal is…
UNITED STATES, July 6, 2024 (India Currents, by Partha Sircar): Some time ago I browsed through a thousand-page tome, The Story of Ramakrishna Mission. What struck me was that three chapters were devoted to the Vedanta movement in America. My initial reaction was that it overstated the influence of America on the Vedanta movement (perhaps another example of our penchant…
NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 7, 2024 (MSN): The Siva Lingam at the Amarnath cave shrine in the Himalayas has started melting, in just over a week after the yatra to the holy shrine began, due to the ongoing heatwave conditions. The yatra to Amarnath cave shrine began on June 29 this year. The Amarnath Cave, nestled at an altitude of…
PUDUCHERRY, INDIA, July 5, 2024 (The Hindu Business Line): Nearly 12,000 age-old palm-leaf manuscripts that contain historic facts stored in Puducherry are getting a new lease of life. To research these invaluable manuscripts, a mobile container lab from Germany landed at Katupalli port at Ennore by container ship Prague Express and reached Puducherry last month. The container lab consists of…
KAUAI, HAWAII, July 5, 2024 (Hinduism Today, by Fred Stella): In the West, it is entirely possible to run into someone who is not ethnically South Asian yet studies the Bhagavad Gita, meditates with a Sanskrit mantra, is a disciple of a guru, chants bhajans and may even have replaced his or her birth name with Ram or Radhika. However,…
ITALY, June 23, 2024 (La Fedelta, Google translated from Italian): For the Indian community of Centallo and the province of Cuneo it was a dream. Since the beginning of June it has started to become reality. It is a new Hindu temple that will be built in the industrial area of Madonna dei Prati on the north side of town.…
