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Source ~ Forum for Hindu Awakening 1. Introduction 2. Understanding, Living & Preserving Hinduism  1. Introduction On 5th November 2010, a novel educational program, ‘Spotlight on Hinduism’ concluded successfully at the Drake Tech Centre in Fort Collins. On the occasion of the widely celebrated Hindu ‘festival of lights’, Diwali , many from Fort Collins and surrounding areas thronged to attend the ‘Spotlight on Hinduism’, a public event held to create awareness about Hinduism. The programme received honourable attendance by the Fort Collins Mayor, Doug Hutchinson, who inaugurated the programme in the tradition of Hinduism, with the lighting of the auspicious oil lamp. Hutchinson shared the importance of not just tolerance, but of ‘proactive inclusion’ of the myriad cultures like Hinduism in Fort Collins, to enrich the City’s diversity. The Spotlight on Hinduism, compeered by Ms. Kate Anderson, a World Literature Professor at Colorado State Univers

What is Dharma? Vedas say -The Sole and Ultimate Authority is Dharma.The Changing Dharma-Everything changes as the place ,time or person changes.It is a grave mistake to translate Dharma as  Religion. Benefits of the Practice of Dharma -Dharma is your nature,but language compells us to use the term "Practice of Dharma".What already is your,to achieve that is the practice of Dharma.Kinds of Dharma-There are many kinds of Dharma for example Varna Dharma,Deha Dharma,Ashram Dharma,Guna Dharma etc. Fundamentals of Dharma- Non-violence (Ahimsa),Truth (Satya),Brahmchary Varna Dharma  Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaisya, Sudra. The Four Asramas(Student, house-holder, recluse, renunciate) Brahmacharyasrama, Grihasthasrama, Vanaprasthasrama, Sannyasthasrama .Yuga Dharma- In Satya-Yuga, there was a different set of Dharmas or laws; in Treta-Yuga they changed into another form; in Dvapara Yuga, the Dharmas were different from the Dharmas of other Yugas.~ Prabhat Ranjan

At least 15 people were killed and 52 injured when three bombs in crowded areas shook the city of Hyderabad today, police said. http://tinyurl.com/azjktm5

The first time I met Sushilkumar Shinde was in 1988 when he inaugurated my wife Kahini’s debut solo art exhibition in Mumbai. He was then a cabinet minister in Chief Minister Sharad Pawar’s Maharashtra government. Twenty-five years and several ministerships later, including the chief ministership of Maharashtra, Shinde has climbed swiftly up the political ladder. He is known to be affable and a consummate party loyalist. As Union Home Minister, however, he has not distinguished himself. When parliament convenes for the Budget session on February 21, he will be in the eye of a storm for his remark that “the RSS and the BJP were promoting Hindu terrorism through their training camps.” Were they? Obviously not. For if they were, Shinde (and the Congress) would have fallen all over themselves to reveal evidence for those terror camps. They haven’t. Instead, Shinde has given Pakistan another excuse to justify terror-equivalence with India: We run terror camps but so do

CANNING(West Bengal): The murder of an elderly villager by a gang of suspected robbers sparked large-scale violence in Canning subdivision on Tuesday morning. Fuelled by wild rumours and anger against police for allegedly taking the case lightly, a mob of thousands plundered four villages and burnt down more than 200 houses. The administration has been shaken the most by reports that a section of attackers was ferried from Kolkata in trucks. This has been confirmed by intelligence officials, say sources. The situation is still tense and there is apprehension that the violence may spread to other parts of the district. Reinforcements have been rushed from neighbouring districts. According to residents of Naliakhali village in Canning-I block, the victim was returning to his home in Basanti after a religious concert at Jamtala village late on Monday when he was accosted by a gang on Naliakhali Main Road. The 60-year-old religious leader was on a motorcycle with an a