Author: Chris Gaetano

Source: Sentinel

http://nbs.gmnews.com/news/2007/0201/Front_Page/037.html

SOUTH BRUNSWICK - The township Zoning Board continued to deliberate on a Hindu temple proposed for Route 27 in Kendall Park during the Jan. 25 meeting.

The temple is being proposed by an organization called Bharat Sevashram Sangha of North America, which is described by the applicant's attorney, Rosalind Westlake, as "a form of very...

Source: Expatica

Author: Heather Scarlett

Source: Daily Kent Stater

Author: Riddhima Seal

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/City_Supplements/Calcutta_Times/I_wont_change_my_name_Swastika/articleshow/1409705.cms

With the EU imposing a ban on the swastika, we find out what happens to all the women with the same name, applying for a visa to European countries.

The recent proposal of Germany calling for...

Source: The Star

Author: Alanah May Eriksen

Source: The Rotorua Daily Post

Author: TOM CAIAZZA

Source: Woodbridge Sentinel

http://ws.gmnews.com/news/2007/0124/Front_Page/006.html

EDISON - Two state legislators have taken steps to further accent the state's diversity by introducing legislation to recognize the Indian holiday of Diwali.

Senator Barbara Buono (D-18) and Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula (D-16) are seeking hearings on duplicate legislation in both houses that would make Oct. 15 through Nov. 14, Diwali...

Author: Sandip Roy

Source: New American Media

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=645ddebf5e4c7f6712f75261ca0766e8

Deepa Mehta’s film Water has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. It’s the third in a trilogy following Fire and Earth. It looks at a colony of widows set in a sacred city whose lives are upturned by a new widow, a child, in...

Author: Larry Hughes

Source: Poughkeepsie Journal

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070126/COLUMNISTS06/70125057/1005/LIFE

The Poughkeepsie Institute is a state of mind, not a place.

The now 10-year-old collaboration between area colleges and the City of Poughkeepsie produces an annual report on a particular issue. The 2006 effort resulted in “The Civic...

Author: SOMINI SENGUPTA

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/world/asia/26yoga.html

NEW DELHI, Jan. 25 — Hollywood celebrities swear by it. Yuppies the world over have fallen on their knees to embrace it. Now, the question of whether public school students in India should be required to take up the sun salutation, or “surya namaskar” as the common yoga exercise is known in Sanskrit, has engendered a legal...

Source: The Statesman

Source: Woodbridge Sentinel

http://ws.gmnews.com/news/2007/0124/Front_Page/023.html

SOUTH BRUNSWICK - The township might be the home of the only temple for a particular sect of Hinduism in all of New Jersey, if the Zoning Board approves.

An application presented Jan. 11 was filed by Bharat Sevashram Sangha of North America Inc., which currently maintains a house in Kendall Park for use in religious practices. The project, if approved, would entail the...

Author: Vasudha Narayanan

Source: The Washington Post

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/vasudha_narayanan/2007/01/hearing_voices_of_women_poets.html

Hindu women have been both empowered and subjugated by their religious structures. Yes, there have been terrible crimes against women, as in most religions. And yet, it may be argued that within the Hindu traditions women have also created...

Author: MEERA RAJAGOPALAN

Source: INDIA New England News

Author: Inni Kaur

Source: Sikh News Network

http://www.sikhnet.com/Sikhnet/news.nsf/NewsArchive/06DEF1320D6CE07287257267007C6B64!OpenDocument

On Sunday, January 14, 2007 the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan in conjunction with the Interfaith Center of New York presented a talk ‘By the Book’. Application and interpretation from the four scriptures: Christianity, Judaism, Islam and the Sikh faith...