Source: www.hindu.comVISAKHAPATNAM, INDIA, August 18, 2009: The youth of Gajuwaka intend to install the tallest Ganesha murti in the state this year. Under the aegis of Sampath Vinayak Youth, a voluntary outfit, over US$50,000 has been raised to engage artistes from Medinapore of West Bengal to make a 54-foot-high murti, to be installed at the [...]Source: www.ddinews.gov.inUTTARAKHAND, INDIA, August 14, 2009: ALL across Uttarakhand, temples have been decorated for Friday’s celebration of Janmashtmi, the birthday of Lord Krishna. Special prayers and programs marking the occasion will be attended by pilgrims from all across the country.In Badrinath, the Badri Vishal temple has been decorated; at Haridwar, people will begin their day [...]Source: francoisgautier.wordpress.comNEW YORK, USA, August 10, 2009: The noted and eloquent French journalist and writer Francois Gautier, who has made India his home and propagation of Hinduism his cause and mission for over three decades, is currently traveling across the US to raise funds through his foundation, FACT - India, to establish an Indian history [...]Source: www.hinduismtoday.comLead me in the center of thy silence to fill my heart with songs. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) celebrated Bengali writer who won the Nobel Prize Literature in 1913Source: www.sundaytimes.lkJAFFNA, SRI LANKA, August 16, 2009: Jaffna’s annual Nallur festival is a major religious and social event which draws devotees from the far corners of the world to this famous Hindu temple in northern Sri Lanka. Rain or shine, even through the dreadful war years, the Nallur festival has been held every year without [...]Source: belizenews.comWASHINGTON, DC, USA, June 12, 2009: President Barack Obama has chosen Indian-American businessman Vinai Thummalapally as the new United States Ambassador to Belize.The two are long-time friends, having been college roommates in 1980. Vinai attended Obama’s wedding in 1982 and was in Illinois in 2007 when Obama announced that he was running for President. [...]Source: www.thaindian.comDHAKA, BANGLADESH, August 13, 2009: Bangladesh’s Hindu community celebrated Janmashtami on Thursday, marking the birth of Lord Krishna with functions organised in the national capital and other parts of the country. It is a public holiday and President Zillur Rahman will host a reception for leaders of the community at the president’s house Banga [...]Source: www.hindustantimes.comINDIA, August 16, 2009: Namo, a design house launched in 2007 which specializes in the devotional space, is the brainchild of Delhi-based Pankaj Verma and his wife, Julie Bose.Verma is a 40-something NID graduate who worked as an interior designer for two decades before starting his own company. He explains, “Apartments are getting fancier, [...]Source: HPIKAUAI, HAWAII, August 17, 2009: An HPI reader points out that the Indian school textbooks are most written from a Marxist point of view, with an emphasis on economic strife, disparity between rich and poor and the alleged evils of the capitalist system as major forces in shaping Indian history. One needs to keep [...]Source: www.hinduismtoday.comAn old Native American wise man once said there were always two dogs inside of him fighting–a good dog and a bad dog. When asked, Which one wins, he replied, The one I feed. Source: www.ptinews.comWASHINGTON, DC, USA, August 12, 2009: Appointed by the US President Barack Obama as a member of a faith-based advisory council of the White House, Anju Bhargava, a banker and a Hindu priest, hopes to remove the ignorance about Hinduism and spread the “real meaning” of the rituals associated with the religion.Forty two-year-old Bhargava, [...]Source: www.hindu.comCHENNAI, INDIA, August 6, 2009: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has requested the public to use only Ganesha statues made of raw clay during Vinayaka Chathurthi festival on August 23. The recent trend of immersing Ganeshas made with plaster-of-Paris, chemicals and paints has resulted in pollution of the water bodies.While the Board’s powers [...]Source: news.bbc.co.ukRAWALPINDI, INDIA, August 11, 2009: For the last five decades, 80-year-old Indu Mitha has been teaching the beautiful and deeply religious Bharatanatyam dance to Pakistanis. Dance, it seems, can cross cultural and religious boundaries.Teaching traditional Indian dance in Pakistan required a delicate balancing act, which she successfully performed along her dance steps. Dance was [...]
The Guru of the Nandinatha Sampradaya, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami due to visit London soon. The Nandinatha Sampradaya run the Master course, which I am currently studying, and my family and I will be able to meet him during his visit.
I do not have a Guru, at least one present in the physical world, though [...]
Kurma Rupa dasa: Dear Friends, Jai Govinda! Our August 2009 Care for Cows Newsletter has been posted. Please review it at your earliest convenience