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Dr J .Robert Oppenheimer is famous for being the 'father the atomic bomb'which unleashed hitherto unimagined nightmares on humanity. in literally a flash the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were obliterated. the human casualties were even more poignant. Oppenheimer will therefore always be associated with weapons of mass destruction which if used would incinerate all [...]

When the financial bull market began in 1982, investment capital became more important than labor. Investment capital places a premium on higher education, on conceptual & mathematical skills. These skills are far more easily transmitted to children by college-educated parents. In other words, a "Brahminification" of America began to occur. [...]

“Time to promote Sanskrit language among the masses and let the knowledge contained in scriptures go global,” says Narendra Modi [...]

In a matter of a few 100 years, between the accounts of traveller Alberuni and Mirza Haider, Kashmir became a changed land Reacting to a recent dress code diktat issued by the Jamaat-e-Islami in Kashmir, BJP leader and the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley called for the Jamaat to be [...]

CHENNAI: A curious coincidence led 62-year-old V Ravi to read about the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute attached to the Madras Sanskrit College in Mylapore which is languishing for want of funds at a time when he had just begun learning Sanskrit. An email thread, circulated on the subject, had made its way to the mailing [...]

Lucerne, June 14 (IBNS) City of Lucerne in Switzerland has reportedly agreed to allow Hindus to perform rituals related to dispersing cremated remains on the Reuss River bank. According to reports, an environmental study has confirmed that these rites would not cause environmental harm. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) on [...]

Spiritual Guru Shri Shri Ravi Shankar urged the devotees to maintain calm and not protest against the reduction in the Amarnath Yatra duration. In a press release issued on 4 June, the spiritual guru said, “I would like to clarify to the Shiva Bhaktas who are eager to go to the Sri Amarnath Yatra that [...]

KwaZulu-Natal police are awaiting feedback from the national office whether religious wristbands will be allowed in their dress code. This follows complaints from 24 police officers who were told by Pinetown station commander Brigadier Owen Zama to remove red strings, a Hindu symbol of protection, from their wrists. Zama told Hindu officers last month that [...]

Even in the dog days of summer, the quiet paddy fields that mark the border between India and Bangladesh look as supple and green as the soft stems of herbs grown in a window box. But the daytime tranquillity belies a stark reality. This delta region of the Ganges river is a place of often [...]

As you pull into the driveway of the Sri Lakshmi Hindu Temple in the Boston suburb of Ashland, Sanskrit chants reverberate from a building across the way where free classes are being held. From seven-year-olds to 70-year-olds, people in Boston, New York, Seattle, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities over the U.S. are attending [...]