{"id":17664,"date":"2018-12-25T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T16:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=17664"},"modified":"2018-12-25T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T16:17:12","slug":"hindu-press-international-dec-25-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/sanatana-dharma\/hindu-press-international\/hindu-press-international-dec-25-2018","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Press International- Dec 25, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Conference on Soft Power Concludes in India<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"DELHI, INDIA, December 19, 2018 (HPI): The Conference on Soft Power conducted by India Foundation’s Center for Soft Power concluded today in Delhi. The high level event was attended by several hundred participants and featured dozens of speakers including the Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu, who opened the event. The Daily Excelsior (source above) reported that the Vice President said that India has always been one of the foremost cultural forces in the world. ”It is time that we focus on India’s rise as a soft power nation and the need for an India-centric discourse on soft power; how to maximise and deploy soft power assets, particularly to furthering national, regional and global interests. It was ’Vishwaguru’ who provided cultural, spiritual & intellectual leadership. Knowledge-seekers from other countries used to come to Indian universities like Takshashila and Nalanda,” he said. He said that soft power was one of the ”newest frameworks to understand and leverage India’s role in international order.”<\/p>\n

Hinduism Today was there and editor in chief Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami gave a well-received presentation (available on YouTube here:\u00a0http:\/\/youtu.be\/CWkPLvqimrE?t=1237<\/a>). A story on the impressive event, by far the best organized and highest quality conference the magazine has covered, will appear it our next issue. (Our presence in Delhi is also the reason for the sudden lapse in new issues of HPI itself, which will now resume as usual.)<\/p>\n

The entire conference was recorded and uploaded live on YouTube. The playlist can be viewed at:
\nhttp:\/\/youtube.com\/channel\/UCoa562Q8QrgTAAyqNsx36oA<\/a><\/p>\n

See also the Foundation’s Facebook page: facebook.com\/IndiaFoundation\/<\/p>\n

As is typical of conferences, the event received only passing mention in the media, though an article on a presentation of food as soft power appears here:
\nhttp:\/\/financialexpress.com\/lifestyle … dic-civilisation\/1422326\/<\/a><\/p>\n

And on education, here:
\nhttp:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/ho … \/articleshow\/67187579.cms<\/a><\/p>\n

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Neglect and Paradoxical Rules on Preservation Threaten India’s Historic Hindu Sun Temple<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Visitors tour the Konark Sun Temple in eastern India. Photo by Arpan Mahajan\/Creative Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

BHUBANESWAR,INDIA, December 12, 2018 (RNS): Brigitte Viollet, a French businesswoman, spends three months of every year in the company of the Sun Temple in Konark, an ancient settlement on the east coast of India. Built in the 13th century by King Narasingha Deva I, the Sun Temple was designed as a colossal chariot mounted on 12 pairs of ornamented wheels to honor the Hindu God of the sun, Surya. Seven horses pull the chariot eastward toward dawn, symbolizing the seven days of the week. The spokes of the wheels make a sundial that helped ancient sages calculate time. ”The scientific spirit and aesthetic sensibilities of ancient India are unmatched,” said Viollet, who is one of some 50,000 visitors the temple draws every year. [The temple was sacked and damaged multiple times between 1556 and 1800 ce by Muslim raiders.]<\/p>\n

But to the dismay of many who treasure the monument, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984, the intricate stone carvings of deities and celestial beasts that cover the Sun Temple’s outer surface are being replaced by plain blocks of stone in an attempt to shore up the building. Many more have allegedly been discarded and strewn around the protected site. Conservation efforts began at Konark in the early 20th century, when British Indian archaeologists first recognized its worth. Later, fearing a structural collapse, the British teams filled the temple’s main audience hall with sand. As long ago as 1937, when the Archaeological Survey of India took charge of the project, removing the sand became the focus of restoration plans, but little was done. By 2010, at an international conference in Konark attended by UNESCO delegates, the ASI’s lack of action brought rebuke from conservationists. Consequently, a steering committee was formed to accelerate sand removal and sculpted stones’ treatment.<\/p>\n

More of this article and some nice photos at ”source”.<\/p>\n

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Help Hinduism Today Cover the Kumbha Mela: Send Us Questions for the Saints<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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KAUAI, HAWAII, December 24, 2018 (HPI): Hinduism Today’s reporter and photographer will be covering the upcoming Kumbha Mela in Prayagraj. The event from January 15 to March 4, 2019, is expected to be massive, with estimates now being heard that more than 100 million pilgrims will attend over its nearly three month run. Hinduism Today itself will be present in the latter part of January, with a focus on interviews of the major saints and sadhus present. We’re requesting our readers to send us questions they would like asked of the famous and not-so-famous seers who will be present. A central purpose of the Mela is for the saints to gather, evaluate the status of dharma in the world and offer observations and advice on how mankind can improve. Questions can range from the philosophical to the practical, with no subject ”off the table.” It will be several years before we will again have access to such collective wisdom.<\/p>\n

Questions can be sent directly to the managing editor, Acharya Arumuganathaswami at\u00a0ar@hindu.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Daily Inspiration<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in a bundle, keep them in your heart and go your own way.
\n— Kabir (1440-1518),<\/b>\u00a0Indian Saint<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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