Source ALABAMA, U.S., April 1, 2021 (Daily Caller): A bill in Alabama that would have lifted the 1993 ban on yoga in public schools has stalled in the state’s Senate, CBS News reported Thursday. During a hearing of the Alabama state Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, representatives from two conservative groups objected, stating concerns that yoga could promote Hinduism and…
Source One who is established in a comfortable posture while concentrating on the inner Self naturally becomes immersed in the Heart’s ocean of bliss.— Siva Sutras III, 16
Source KAUAI, HAWAII, USA (HPI): Hinduism Today is seeking a young Hindu video game player to review the Raji video game. It’s a remarkably designed game drawing on multiple traditions of Hindu art. The published description reads: “Raji: An Ancient Epic is an action-adventure game set in ancient India. A young girl named Raji has been chosen by the Gods…
Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, March 31, 2021 (Daily Star): The recent spate of violence against the Hindus started with Sunday’s attack on a Brahmanbaria temple launched from a Hefajat-e-Islam procession. Members of the minority religion were targets of violence after the Qawmi madrasa-based organization unleashed havoc in many areas on Sunday during their dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal. In Brahmanbaria on Sunday, around…
Source BANGLADESH, March 26, 2021 (Malaysia Sun): Bangladesh has renovated the Jeshoreshwari temple in Satkhira ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit during which he will offer prayers. Jeshoreshwari Kali Temple is a famous Hindu temple dedicated to the Goddess Kali. The temple is located in Ishwaripur–a village in Shyam Nagar, Upazila of Satkhira. This is Prime Minister Modi’s first…
Source To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of…
Source BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, March 17, 2021 (News Bharati): The decision of the Navin Patnaik government in Odisha to sell the land of the Lord Jagannath Temple has come under the sharp criticism from the devotees who feel that this is the betrayal of the trust of the millions of Hindu devotees. The Odisha state government has planned to sell over…
Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, March 20, 2021 (Telegraph India): Hundreds of supporters of a hardline Islamist group in Bangladesh attacked and vandalized 70 to 80 Hindu homes in the country’s northeastern Sylhet division after a social media post allegedly by a youth from the minority community, media reports said on Friday. The attack on a Hindu village by several thousand followers…
Source “God is the creator, and the best way of offering prayer to him is to be creative. God is all loving, and the best way to serve him is to serve humanity.”— Swami Dayananda Saraswati (1825-1883), Hindu reformer, founder of the Arya Samaj
Source CLAREMORE, OKLAHOMA, March 15, 2021 (KTUL): A Hindu prayer spoken before tonight’s city council meeting in Claremore has residents up in arms. It’s the first time in the city’s history where a Hindu prayer has opened a meeting. The city welcomed the offer to pray to show the town is quoted open for diversity. As this Hindu priest delivered…