Ganesh Temple hosts an Indian feast of vegetarian delights
Ganesh Temple, the first Hindu house of worship in the U.S., is best known for its magnificently carved 50-foot tower rising above an otherwise ordinary residential block in Flushing. A close second in fame is its basement canteen serving authentic Tamil Nadu fare starring the dosa, a crepe made from fermented rice and lentils. Taste your way through More...
Ghazi sinks, a temple rises | The Hindu
The year was 1971. A few days after the sinking of the Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi off the Visakhapatnam coast, an unusual sight was witnessed by residents of the city. A fleet of vehicles with an army of naval More...
Italian envoy visits Brahma temple in Pushkar | Times of India
AJMER: Italian ambassador to India, Lorenzo Angeloni, said education is the universal necessity and only mean of development. Lorenzo distributed cameras to girl students in Pushkar Friday and also initiated a centre More...
Heavy snowfall at cave, tracks set to make clearance operations tough
JAMMU, Feb 13: Though there has been heavy snowfall this year in the entire Kashmir valley including holy cave of Shri Amarnath Ji, located at a height of 12,756 feet from sea level in Anantnag district of South More...
Nitish Kumar opposes Centre’s inland waterways project on Ganga
PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday publicly announced that he and his government are against the central government’s proposed Allahabad-Haldia national inland waterways project on the river More...
Urine capsules, dung insect repellent: Meet the people behind IIT-Delhi’s cow research project – Scroll.In
Last week, the Scientific Validation and Research on Panchgavya project, coordinated by the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, internally approved 34 proposals for research into panchgavya – a concoction More...
The Great Bengal Famine: an Indian Holocaust
Emaciated children roam the streets in search of food. Dogs and jackals feast on the remains of dead bodies in villages. People, out of desperation, beg for the starchy water in which rice has been boiled. Starvation. More...
Varnā – A Journey to its root
By Guest Author Sachitananda We see divisions all around us – in Nature, in society, within government, within our own body. Even an ant or honeybee colony seems to have division of labor. Interestingly More...
‘Ram’s name’ in rainbow replaced in Bengal’s textbooks: The New Indian Express
KOLKATA: The traditional name for rainbow in Bengali is ‘Ramdhenu’ or Lord Ram’s bow. However, in an attempt to ‘secularise’ the word, as opposed to saffronisation attempts in texts More...