This site has
been featured at:
Of
God and Holy Water (by
Rajeev Srinivasan at Rediff.com).
Hinduism
Today (April/May/June 2003).
A
‘web trove’ of India’s glorious past (by N S Soundara Rajan
at deccanherald.com).
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Hinduism
Today – Digital Dharma – April/May/June 2003
KNOWLEDGE
BASE
A
Well of Resources
Just as
the cloth of a Beautiful sari unfolds with ultimate grace, so does the site, a
Tribute to Hinduism, www.atributetohinduism.com,
open to reveal page after page of inspiring, positive information about the
world’s oldest religion. Each category has been carefully researched and
substantiated with thoughts of renowned scholars of Hinduism. For those wishing
to pursue the study, books are recommended for further reading and useful links
on the Web are provided. Dedicated to Lord Ganesha, Bharat Mata, and to the
countless rishis who lived for Sanatana Dharma, the site educates, enlightens
and creates an awareness of the traditions of the Hindu faith. It explains and
successfully removes many common misconceptions and misinterpretations
surrounding rituals and worship, dispelling confusion and instilling a sense of
Hindu pride.
***
Hinduism
Today – Digital Dharma - October/November/December 2008
REFERENCE
A
Rich and Authentic Hindu Compendium
In 2003
WE REVIEWED THE SITE, “A Tribute to Hinduism,” an encyclopedic resource by
Mrs. Sushama Londhe. Started in the Internet’s early days, in 1996, her site,
now called www.hinduwisdom.info, has
evolved into one of the most comprehensive and authentic resources on Hinduism
in the digital info sphere. The site’s simple organization under Quotes,
Basics, Science, History, Social and Other categories belies the breadth and
depth behind the links.
With a
focus on Hindu pride in the face of Western ideological imperialism, Sushama
organizes subjects with outlines to draw together hundreds of authoritative
quotes, book excerpts and links to external websites into a powerful educational
framework. Noteworthy are the abundance of quotes by Westerners in support of
Sanatana Dharma. Tackling misinformation about Hinduism “head on,” the pages
on conversion fearlessly expose the fallacies behind Western Christian and
Islamic assertions of exclusivity. The page on the caste system is one of the
best resources on the subject we have ever seen. And for a real thriller,
don’t miss the page “
India
on Pacific Waves” with citations of all the evidence that indigenous
Americans, Incan and Mayan cultures came from India. Featured is Sushama’s book, A
Tribute to Hinduism.
The
book is available at the following libraries world wide - University
of Heidelberg, Germany, National
Library of Australia, Mahidol
University of Thailand, Library
and Archives of
Canada
and worldcat.org
***
Labor
of Love: Hindu Wisdom – By Sanjay Choudhary
Recently, while trawling
the Net, I stumbled upon a fantastic website about Hinduism.
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/
This site is a labour of
love, painstakingly put together brick by brick over the years by
Sushama Londhe, an Indian American.
It is different from other
sites on Hinduism which usually start and end with explaining esoteric Hindu
philosophy. What Sushama has done is that she has handpicked thousands of quotes
from influential people throughout the world (historians, scientists, linguists,
thinkers, intellectuals, professors) about Hinduism and Indian history and
culture, basically everything that is the intellectual produce of the land over
thousands of years. The site has now become so vast, you can spend
days browsing it.
Sushama has done a great
job by adopting this unique strategy of collecting quotes. This is because the
first introduction of most Hindus to how the outsiders view and assess Hinduism
and Indian culture is through mischievous missionary propaganda of “cow,
curry, caste.” This is unfortunate because this
barrage of hate speech (missionaries are after all vending a competing product)
leaves Indians confused and they become embarrassed and defensive about their
identity.
Hindu Wisdom does the
opposite. It tells you what the intellectual class of other races really
thinks about Hinduism. And it is a matter of great pride for us to have
inherited this spiritual literature and culture that no other race has been able
to produce.
The site has now been
turned into a book called “A Tribute to Hinduism.” The best thing you can do
is to gift this book to ignorant and alienated Hindu youngsters who are
usually more clued into coke and pizza than their own religion and culture.
After reading the site, one does tend to feel pride about the ancient Indians
and what they have handed down to us, which is actually a treasure for entire
humanity.
One
can only imagine that if this heritage had belonged to Westerners, how they
would have gone about beating drums to its glory in front of the rest of the
world and how they would have argued that this proved their race was on a
different level of evolution altogether. Indians are indeed poor salesmen.
Because of low self-esteem
that usually comes from being a conquered race, Hindus have developed a habit of
seeking external validation about their identity and
culture (especially from Westerners). Well, Sushama is providing you
your external validation. Browse the site and enjoy what people of other races
have said about Hinduism. (And learn to rebuff the missionaries.)
Hindu
Wisdom – By Sanjay Choudhary - indianrealist.wordpress.com December
17, 2008
***
The
Yale Vedanta Society
Princeton
University - CSR
Duke
University - HSC
University of Heidelberg
Hindu
Student Council - Cornell University
HSC
- North Carolina State University
Hindu Student Organization - University of MD
Southwest
Missouri State Univ. Libraries
Iowa
State University - e-library
India In Classrooms
The
Council of Hindu Temples of North America
Hindu Forum of
Belgium
TurkishPress.com
Kirby
Library
New
York Public Library
Educators'
Society for the Heritage of India
writespirit.net
Hindu
Education Foundation
American
Hindu Association
Archaeology
Online
Lubbock
Satsang Mandal
Sri Chinmoy bio
yoga.pro.br
- Brazil
maayaboli.com
Balilife.com
United
States Armed forces Network
Baghdadmuseum.org
Panchamukha
Hanuman Foundation
Introduction - Inde
Voice of India
Journey Through Timeless India
Glasgow
University Hindu Society
Gaudiya-ru.org
- Russian
mbeaw.org
DOSSIER
THE gifts of the Indian to the humanity - Italian
Robert
Lingham SatyaVidya - New Zealand
Newsletter
of the Gungywamp Society
balagokulam.org
Hindu
Chat Zone
Marathiworld.com
Pujas.com
Hindu
Conference of Canada
Ursi's
Eso Garden
Hindu Voice UK
Hindu Temple of Greater Cinncinnati
as well as in:
The Commemorative
Sanskrit Souvenir 2003 of the Bharatiya
Vidya Bhavan - Puthucode
Kendra Kerala, India.
Chapter (e) Sanskrit - The
Language of Ancient India
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Sangh Sandesh UK
- Jan/Feb 2005
Cyber Pearls - A Tribute to Hinduism
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This site has
been referenced at:
The
Journal of Israeli Center for UFO Research
-
For Vimanas
Weather,
warfare and gimps
- Ian Fraser Mail
and Guardian Online
Women
in Hinduism - Bologna
Center- Johns Hopkins University
International
Committee of the Red Cross
The Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Bond Univ. Australia
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