Now accepting applications for the 2008 spring, summer and fall tour. Festival Of India is looking for a few young men that would like to participate in major festivals all over North America. Please visit www.festivalofindia.org to see our 2008 Tour schedule.

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.

Sri Web site is “just now coming” with a slightly different address ( www.festivalofinspiration.org ) but here is a glimpse of what you can expect to happen during North America’s most popular Krishna family get-together during the Appalachian Spring in New Vrindaban, 2008 and you can be sure that more is on the way!

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.

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.