KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, August 21, 2021 (Indian Express): The Taliban are learnt to have stopped a batch of 72 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, including two minority members of Afghanistan parliament, from boarding an Indian Air Force (IAF) plane on Saturday. They were sent back from the Kabul airport. Seeking evacuation to India, this first batch of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus had…
LONDON, ENGLAND, August 20, 2021 (Khaleej Times): HPI Note: One mostly reads about Robert Clive for his military exploits and establishment of British Power in India. One rarely encounters the fact he was also a common thief, having stolen a large number of objects from India and shipped them back to England. One of the many Indian slang words incorporated…
The Hindu religion brings to us the gift of tolerance that allows for different stages of worship, different and personal expressions of devotion and even different Gods to guide our life on this Earth. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
AMRITSAR, INDIA, August 17, 2021 (Hindustan Times): Concerned over their safety in Afghanistan, particularly after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, “nearly 50 Hindus and 270 Sikhs” have taken refuge at Gurdwara Karte Parwan in the national capital, making desperate efforts to be evacuated from the war-torn country. Talking over phone to HT, Narinder Pal Singh, a member of…
You live on Earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit. Chief White Eagle (1825-1914), Indigenous leader of the Native American Ponca tribe
MADURAI, INDIA, August 14, 2021 (New Indian Express): The 77-year-old pontiff of the Madurai Aadheenam, Arunagirinatha Gnanasambantha Desika Paramacharya Swamigal, breathed his last at a private hospital here at 9.15 pm on Friday. He was undergoing treatment for respiratory illness. The Madurai Adheenam, considered one of the oldest Saivite Aadheenams (Hindu monasteries) in the State, is said to have been…
KERALA, INDIA, August 9, 2021 (Hinduism Today by Choodie Sivaram): Devotees of Kerala’s historic Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple rejoiced at the July 13, 2020, ruling of India’s Supreme Court upholding the rights of the royal family of Travancore to administer the wealthy temple. The two-judge bench of Justice U. U. Lalit and Justice Indu Malhotra reinstated the rights of the royal…
The devout seeker is he who mingles in his heart the double currents of love and detachment, like the mingling of the streams of Ganges and Yamuna. Saint Kabir (1440-1518)
INDIA, August 11, 2021 (News 18 by Vinay Nalwa): As India gets ready to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Independence from the British rule, the struggles and sufferings of the natives under the Portuguese rule have somehow escaped our attention. In that context, it is time to recall the horrors of Portuguese rule in Goa, which ultimately got liberated only…
HONG KONG, August 12, 2021 (CNN Business): We’ve grown used to oat milk and soya milk — now a food-tech startup is taking alternative milk to the next level. California-based Perfect Day uses fungi to make dairy protein that is “molecularly identical” to the protein in cow’s milk, says co-founder Ryan Pandya. That means it can be used to make…