(CHAKRA) Mahavir Janma Kalyanak is the specialist religious holiday in Jainism for Jains located all around the world.. It is the birth celebration of Lord Mahavira, the last Tirthankara. On the Gregorian calendar, the holiday occurs either in March or April. This year in 2012, it falls around April 5th. Mahavir Jayanti’s biggest celebrations take […]

In Pattani’s Thung Yang Daeng district, two Thai Buddhists were recently killed. Police have revealed that the foremost suspects are two muslim militants from the area. Suan Chansri and Somnuak Somdang were traveling in a pick up truck through the village of Ban Khao Din when a number of culprits ran out of a forest […]

(CHAKRA) In the book Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism, Indo-American thinker and philosopher Rajiv Malhotra addresses the challenge of a direct and honest engagement on differences, by reversing the gaze, repositioning India from being the observed to the observer and looking at the West from the dharmic point of view. In doing […]

Saskatoon, Canada (CHAKRA) – A Hindu Temple in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada) is launching a $1-million expansion project. With construction starting in May next, it envisages an increase of about 2,500 square feet area each at main and basement levels, doubling the current seating capacity of the Temple. A Temple Expansion Committee chaired by Veena Avinashi […]