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Video : Hindu Prayers for Rain in Australia

Video : Hindu Prayers for Rain in Australia

So far the fires have devastated the Australian environment leaving half a billion dead animals on its path.Some Hindus are praying for the rains to end this. [...]

January 5, 2020 HHR Archives, HHR Videos, News updates 0

Video : Ganga crusader GD Agarwal dies after 111-day fast

Video : Ganga crusader GD Agarwal dies after 111-day fast

Veteran environmentalist GD Agarwal passed away in Rishikesh today at 1.11pm after a 111-day fast to save the Ganga. 86-year-old Agarwal, former IIT-Kanpur professor, had given up solids on June 22. Subsequently, he also gave up water on October 9, 2018. [...]

October 11, 2018 HHR Archives, HHR Videos, World Focus 0

The historical roots of our ecological crisis

The historical roots of our ecological crisis

Prof White was a historian of medieval Christianity who conjectured that Christian influence in the Middle Ages was the root cause of the ecological crisis in the 20th century. He gave a lecture on December 26, 1966, called “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis” at the Washington meeting of the American Association for the Advancement [...]

June 26, 2015 HHR Analysis/Insights, Archives 0

Time for India’s Rebirth

Time for India’s Rebirth

Western society today believes only in “exploitation,” “expansion,” “efficiency,” “competitiveness”—and seeks to transform its members into unthinking cogs in a huge Machine. We will certainly find some remarkable individuals here and there, but the mass is left to live from day to day, with, now and then, the luxury of a fit of depression, when [...]

October 25, 2013 HHR Spirituality/Culture 1

The Cry of the River Yamuna that is so Polluted it’s become a Sea of Foam

The Cry of the River Yamuna that is so Polluted it’s become a Sea of Foam

Devotees went for a traditional bath to mark the Karthik Purnima religious ceremony celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu calendar month of Karthik Images of the foam-coated river show the extent of the pollution of the Yamuna around New Delhi Indian government has spent nearly £200 million trying to clean up the [...]

April 1, 2013 HHR Analysis/Insights, HHR Videos, News updates 0
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