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In Defense of Food: How Processed Fare Affects Us

By Paula Goodyer for The Sydney Morning Herald on 18 Feb 2008

For a great example of how our modern food supply got into such a mess, look no further than the history of bread. Back in the late 19th century mechanized roller-milling replaced the older, slower system of grinding grains between big stone wheels - a giant leap forward for food processing, and a step backward for human nutrition.

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Hindus Rally Against Government Control of Temples

By Sri Nandanandana Dasa (Stephen Knapp) on 17 Feb 2008

The Public Forum at Tirupati was an event wherein as many as 10,000 Indians turned up to show their opposition to the government control of Hindu temples. This was organized by the Hindu Devalaya Parirakshana Samiti and supported by the Global Hindu Heritage Foundation of the USA. And I was, practically, the only westerner to participate.

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17 February 2008

The waves wash in a plastic bag. A dead turtle. A strand of seaweed. The waves then draw them back again taking further and further away, deep into the ocean.

A billion galaxies shine in the sky a million light years away, and then disappear after another ten trillion years. Mahavisnu breathes out and billions of universes appear. He inhales, and they disappear.

US State Department Approves Hindu Artisans for Visa

Hinduism Today on 17 Feb 2008

CHENNAI, INDIA, February 8, 2008: Hinduism Today's managing editor, Sannyasin Arumugaswami, reports learning from the head of the nonimmigrant visa section of the US Consulate in Chennai that the State Department in Washington, DC, has issued an "advisory opinion" approving the granting of the religious worker visa to Hindu temple artisans, sthapati and silpis.

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