USA, January 15, 2024 (hindustantime.com): Politics escalates in India as the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya is set to take place on 22nd January, 2023. While many argue that politics is overpowering religion, others say the grand Ram Temple is an assertion of their rights by the majority Hindu community of India. In the latest edition of HT…
KAUAI, HAWAII, January 9, 2024 (Hinduism Today): Today’s popular concept of yoga equates it with hatha yoga and the practice of the hatha yoga asanas, or postures. Many who practice such yoga do so solely for health benefits. However, others pursue yoga, in a deeper sense, in hopes of reaping the spiritual benefits it offers. It is to these spiritual…
Jan 16, 2024 00:14 IST INDIA, January 16, 2024 (India Today, video interview): On the excitement and enthusiasm around the Pran Pratishtha on ceremony, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said, “This is the moment Hindus have been waiting for centuries. You know, people have been wanting to see this Ram Mandir come up and Ram Lalla having his rightful place. He…
AUSTRALIA, January 13, 2024 (press release): Warrior Tribe Films is releasing their ground-breaking film “Namaste Yoga” worldwide in late January after an impressive international film festival run and national broadcast in Australia. Namaste Yoga is a 22-minute film about 10-year-old Shiv Prasad, who is ashamed of being Indian and Hindu, and when he gets into a fight at school, his…
KAUAI, HAWAII, January 11, 2024 (Hinduism Today, by Anuradha Goyal): If Xuan Zang, the 7th-century-ce Chinese traveler and Buddhist scholar, were to visit his beloved alma mater at Nalanda in the current-day state of Bihar, he’d find only a portion of its ruins accessible and excavated. Viewing the exposed brick structures, he would have memories of how they were once…
DELHI, INDIA, January 10, 2024 (News 18): The grandeur of the Ram temple is a sight to behold. Neither iron nor cement has been used to build the temple. To make the temple earthquake resistant, natural stone has been used in building the temple. Professor Ramanchrala Pradeep Kumar, Director of the CSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, commented on the…
KAUAI, HAWAII, January 8, 2024 (Hinduism Today, “Publisher’s Desk” by Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami): ”One practice that most world’s religions share is having an ordained priest or minister conduct a religious service in a place of worship which lay members of the faith attend. In the Western (Abrahamic) religions, this takes place on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. In Eastern religions, there…
AYODHYA, INDIA, January 6, 2024 (The Hindu by Ishita Mishar): The dust from construction hangs heavy in the air, over the area Hindus believe is the birthplace of Ram, considered the seventh incarnation of Vishnu. Spread across 2.7 acres, the temple that will occupy 30% of this space, with the rest left for green cover. In November 2019, a Constitution…
KAUAI, HAWAII, January 7, 2023 (Hinduism Today, by Choodie Shivaram): Decades after the violent expulsion of the Kashmir Pandits from the Kashmir Valley, peace has largely been restored and the region’s historic tradition of interreligious harmony has reasserted itself, as witnessed by a new Sharda Temple opening just feet from the Line of Control. It was sponsored by Sringeri Shankaracharya…
INDIA, January 2, 2024 (APB News): January 22, 2024, will be etched in golden letters as the day when, after years, Lord Ram will be enshrined in his majestic Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. The preparations for the consecration of Lord Rama’s statue are in the final stages, and this historic moment will be witnessed by the entire world. The schedule…
