...e has three degrees from Calvin College and Seminary, including a master’s in divinity, and has taught in the Chicago public school system, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. “I’ve never proselytized in my life,” Kortenhoven said...

..., the Nobel Laureate poet, one of the intellectual founts of the movement famously said, “If you want to know India, study Vivekananda.” So mark Valentine’s Day we will, for who can turn their back on chocolate and flowe...

... a Hindu way of life. Fifty-five years before Swami Vivekananda spoke at the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago (1893), Hinduism was being practiced in the Caribbean. It is a story of religious survival in the mids...

...c shooting of gurudwara in Milwaukee. “We strongly condemn this type of  attacks on any religious places. FIA-Chicago will do everything to put pressure and extend solid representation to the Homeland Security and other ...

...o their large scale exodus to seek refuge in India for the past few years. The Congress led UPA government in India has so far refused to recognize them as refugees or grant them asylum. The documentary “Human Boundaries...

...king figure, clad in yellow and orange, shining like the sun of India in the midst of the heavy atmosphere of Chicago…a lion head, piercing eyes, mobile lips, movements swift and abrupt." The Parliament, she said, was "e...

...uburban Chicago home and go “trekking” overland from Europe, via Israel, Turkey, and Afghanistan to end up in India. He finds, early in Chicago, that one of his best friends’ parents “hated him” because he was a Jew! Lit...

...with the condescending tone underlying their trip to India: that bringing the American idea of free speech to India is somehow good, whereas the Hindu concept of pluralism that one finds in India—after all, one doesn't h...

...uburban Chicago home and go "trekking" overland from Europe, via Israel, Turkey, and Afghanistan to end up in India. He finds, early in Chicago, that one of his best friends' parents "hated him" because he was a Jew! Lit...

...ollow [the same faith]," may hear other Hindus use the word idol. Most of the Hindus I interact with are from India, and I find myself having to explain to fellow ethnic Hindus that using the word idol is not a good idea...

...s globally. As I see it, the American Vedic Hindu path, which started with the transference of knowledge from India by Swami Vivekananda, is a path on which our immigrant Vedic Hindu community and its progeny are graftin...

...The temple, which is unique in the state, has been compared to larger temples in Chicago, Pittsburgh and even India. Over the past decade, the temple has served as an educational resource of both the Hindu culture and tr...

...acks on the metropolis. This latter case is now the subject of a trial in Chicago. Initial testimonies in the Chicago trial indicate that LeT terrorists worked hand-in-glove with the Pakistani external intelligence age...

...se themselves as Hindus, state unsealed court documents in the US. CHICAGO: In his last surveillance trip to India before 26/11, terror accused David C Headley, at the instruction of his Pakistani handler Major Iqbal, b...

...igions" closer to the West tried yoga. Of course there were good to the yogis and "fakirs", the half-naked in India in some provocative postures presented publicly, possibly for Hagenbeck's international shows, but not a...

... its act together in fighting terrorism. Manu Vora, chairman and president of Business Excellence Inc. in the Chicago area, agrees with Vaishnav. “I feel justice is served after a prolonged battle and great sacrifice o...

... speaker, Swami Vivekananda, gained celebrity for speaking at the 1893 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago. And Mahatma Gandhi influenced the American civil rights movement. In the 1960s and 1970s, Hindu movem...

...ments of Pramukh Swami Maharaj of the Swaminarayan Sanstha, Swami Varadananda of Vivekananda Vedanta Society, Chicago and Pravrajika Vrajaprana of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. Their views, along with those...

...or them. But if anyone else desired the land, the refugees would be ejected; something I observed first-hand. India is today an economic and military powerhouse. Yet it has never advocated for the thousands of victims st...

... just angry and sad to watch the news,” she said. “I think to myself, ‘This is not the India that I knew. The India where I lived was a peaceful place.’” And, Sahay said, she still has faith that it can be again. “The wh...

... ... Three Chicago area families described harrowing escapes Friday from the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. One Chicago couple saw armed attackers through a hotel door peephole. A Deerfield couple defied orders and fled by...

... the West. By aligning with the West, India has been drawn into an anti-Islamic alliance. The perception that India is pro-Western and anti-Islamic is the fundamental cause for the rise of religious fanaticism in India. ...

...st night that under his administration the United States would strengthen ties with other countries including India to “root out and destroy terrorist networks”. With President Bush on his Thanksgiving retreat at Camp Da...