Modi’ recent visit in Ireland: Prime Minister Narendra Modi who arrived on historic visit to Ireland on Wednesday got a warm welcome from Irish kids. Students of John Scottus School in Dublin chanted Sanskrit Shlokas to welcome visiting Indian prime minister. Modi appreciated the song sung in Sanskrit by Irish kids. “Amazed to hear Sanskrit [...]
September 24, 2015
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It features Swami Dayananda Saraswati. In a documentary that is sure to be as intellectually thought-provoking as it is culturally immersive, debutant director Jillian Elizabeth, in conjunction with Neil Dalal, vividly explores a traditional Advaita Vedanta ashram in Tamil Nadu, India. The film, “Grurukulam,” follows a group of students as they study the profound teachings [...]
August 24, 2015
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A bomb has exploded close to a shrine in the centre of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, killing at least 16 people and injuring more than 80. Reports say a second bomb has been found in the area and made safe. No-one has yet said they carried out the attack, which took place close to the Erawan [...]
August 17, 2015
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A family in Mumbai, India decided to adopt Sanskrit as their day to day language when they were having their first child. And since the last 10 years they all talk at home only in Sanskrit, In the interview the mother said – “we have always received positive response from people, never negative. In the [...]
August 9, 2015
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FRISCO (WFAA)- You’ll be hard pressed to find anything like it in the country, let alone in North Texas. But when you look inside the new Hanuman Temple in Frisco Saturday, you’ll realize why it was built. Thousands of Hindus, most of them living in or around the city, crowded into the 34,000-square-foot temple to [...]
August 5, 2015
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Dr APJ Abdul Kalam speaking on Vedas at AMA in Ahmedabad . > problems with sound quality < Speech Dr APJ Abdul Kalam on Vedas, at AMA in Ahmedabad – ‘Celebrate the great souls, celebrate great books, celebrate great lives. Nation transformed into lack of ethics. We need citizen of ethics, citizen of value, citizen [...]
July 28, 2015
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In 1968 the most famous pop band of the time, The Beatles, stayed in an ashram in the Indian town of Rishikesh to learn a form of meditation. The ashram has long since been abandoned, but it remains a must-see stop for fans of the group. Yogita Limaye went to Rishikesh to see it. [...]
Tulsi was a Special Guest at the celebration of International Yoga Day at the UN Headquarters in New York on Jun 21, where she spoke, along with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, India’s Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, and India’s UN Ambassador Asoke Mukerji. Her UN remarks were broadcast live in Times Square! She [...]
June 25, 2015
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The asanas called Upayoga were performed as a trial-run aboard the Delhi-Guwahati and Guwahati-Delhi flights of SpiceJet with over 180 passengers and crew, ahead of International Yoga Day With the stage set for International Yoga Day this Sunday, yoga asanas were performed mid-air at 35,000 feet above the sea-level, arguably the first time ever! The [...]
“Yoga: Harmony with Nature” is a compelling and beautiful new film by National Film Award winner Raja Choudhury and the External Publicity & Public Diplomacy Division of the Ministry of External Affairs of India celebrating Yoga, one of India’s most important gifts to the World. The film explores Yoga’s origins, history, benefits, science, spread and [...]
June 18, 2015
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