Promod Puri's Blog: Hinduism:beyond rituals,customs and traditions, page 50

CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY IF INDIA DOES NOT BEHAVE

The Indian population of over 1.3 billion cannot be isolated from the rest of the world. We are in the same boat globally when it comes to Covid-19 or its variants.

WORLD BOOK DAY: “The wise man reads both books and life itself”

There has been a remarkable shift from the traditional reading channels. Reading printed books or magazines can be a nostalgic pleasure. Most of the information, knowledge, or wisdom we receive on a day-to-day basis is through the internet.

“HINDUISM IS IN DANGER!”

In this toolkit, “Hindu Khatre Main Hai.”

APRIL FOOLS’ DAY: “Life Is Too Important To Be Taken Seriously.”

About April 1, he remarks, "this is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four." Another quote from him, "Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect."Albert Einstein asserts: "before God, we are all equally wise, and equally foolish."

WHY WOMEN ACTIVE IN PROTEST

Women grow as much as 80% of India’s food – but its new farm laws overlook their struggles Bansari Kamdar, University of Massachusetts Boston and Shreyasee Das, Temple University Indian women are left behind on farms to make ends meet as more men in India migrate from rural areas to cities, seeking higher incomes and better jobs. Nearly 75% of the full-time workers on Indian farms are women, according to the international humanitarian group OXFAM. Female farmers produce 60% to 80% of the South Asian country’s food. So it’s little surprise women are playing a visible role in the monthslong …

CELEBRATING POETRY OF SAHIR LUDHIANVI THROUGH FILM MUSIC

Whereas tributes go to the man who enriched contemporary India's literary and poetic landscape, salutations are also to the composers and artists who immortalized his lyrical genius superbly wrapped up in their musical and singing arts.

INTERNET AND FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION FACE HURDLES IN DICTATORIAL TERRITORIES

By Promod Puri World Wide Web originally meant creating a free connected web of interlinked or hyperlinked online sites worldwide. That was the idea of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who drove the concept of online connectivity in 1989. Shared information is created, consumed, commented, spread and recreated while keeping its growth and spread with speed. That is the environment we breathe in the community of social media. It is a “two-way, conversational environment in which information passes horizontally from one person to another along with social networks, rather than being delivered vertically from an impersonal central source,” according to …

IT DOES INTRIGUE ME!

When the ongoing tragedies of human sufferings do not get A line in the poetry of poets, A page in the writings of writers, A stroke of the brush in the paintings of painters, A focus in the meditation of meditators, A stay in the minds of yoga practitioners, A reflection of a sermon of a priest, A statement from the film world’s bigwigs And all others mum and mute while the human catastrophes pass by With the apathetic and callous remark “This is all politics.” -Promod Puri

All About Hinduism

by Promod Puri Why are there so many gods and goddesses in Hinduism? Why worship an idol? Is going to the temple mandatory in the faith? What impact does the caste system have on Hindu society? Why do some rituals make perfect sense while others are so vague? What are the secular and diverse characters in Hinduism? What physics principles constitute the sound of Om? What are karma and its role in our day-to-day lives? These and more subjects are eloquently dealt with in my book titled “Hinduism: beyond rituals, customs and traditions.” The 122-page book on Hinduism written in …

THOUSANDS OF ASSAM MUSLIMS ARE STATELESS

by Promod Puri Is it a crime not to have citizenship? Or more precisely, having no formal documents to prove one’s identity of being a citizen of the country where one was born and lived. Yes, it is indeed a crime for thousands of poor and needy Muslims in Assam who are not the “citizens” of India because they do not possess the documents. Several thousand of them classified in Assam state as non-citizens for lack of proper citizenship documentation or essential references by various government agencies. When getting into the National Register of Citizenship net, these are the people …