A villager wrote to his son living in a town: .Please send me Rupees 10 every month for my expenses.. The village postmaster saw his opportunity in this and added one 0 to the figure and made it 100. The villager’s son went on sending Rs. 100 every month to his father; and the […]

Source CHICAGO, USA, September 13, 2013 (TCN): (HPI Note: This startling turn of events was announced on twocircles.net, a website reporting on issues of concern to Muslims in India. The withdrawal was done without consulting the Hindu members of the Parliament’s board of directors.) American branch of right-wing Hindutva group Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) suffered […]

Source INDIA, September 12, 2013 (ddinews): The deathly silence brooding over Kedarnath since the June calamity hit Uttarakhand broke early Wednesday morning by the chanting of Vedic hymns as prayers resumed at the Himalayan shrine, 86 days after ravaging floods left over 400 people dead in the Kedar valley. Shortly after the dawn, as […]

Source TRINIDAD AND TOGAGO, September 19, 2013 (Trinidad Express): Ganesh Utsav, an Indian festival brought to Trinidad and Tobago by indentured laborers more than 150 years ago, was this week celebrated by Hindus throughout the country. The ten-day worship to Lord Ganesh, remover of obstacles, culminated with a procession where Ganesh murtis were immersed in […]

Source CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, September 25, 2103: HPI Note: The following is a press release from the Parliament of the World’s Religions. In the last week there has been some news about the Parliament’s withdrawal from an event which we had initially endorsed. To clarify the Parliament’s position, the Board of Trustees unanimously approved the following […]

Source UNITED KINGDOM, August 15, 2013 (BBC): The lives of Burma’s (Myanmar’s) Tamil minority are in the centre of a 12-part weekly series launching on BBC Tamil radio on Sunday 18 August. “The Tamils Who Stayed Back In The Golden Land” (Thanga Mannil Thangiya Thamizhargal) explores the conditions in which Burma’s ethnic Tamils live today […]

Source ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, September 16, 2013 (The Hindu): The historical Chaya Someshwara Swamy temple located at Panagal is all set to get a new look very soon as the Department of Archaeology and Museums is preparing to provide chemical treatment to the temple walls to remove fungus. Speaking to The Hindu over the […]

Sri Sri Satchidanandendra Swami Virachita RAGHUVAMSHA(1 and 10 sarga) Grantha Lokarpane Sri Shankara Bhagavarpadavruttanta Sarasarvasva Lecture  by Shatavadhani Dr R Ganesh – Contribution of Sri Sri to Vedanta   Venue : Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs, Bull Temple Road, Basavanagudi

(A Monkey with her Children in a Flood) There was a great flood, a great inundation of the river Ganges, and the river went on rising. On the branches of a tree were sitting several monkeys; there was a female monkey and some children of this female monkey. All these children came up to […]