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Hindu open-air cremations to go ahead in Britain

Feb 16, 2010 8:49am

Open air cremation of the English poet Shelley (Painting by Louis Edouard Fournier 1889) I am happy to learn that after many years of repeated refusals, permission has finally been given for open-air cremations here in Britain. It means that Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Buddhists and Vaishnavas will be able to conduct funerals...

ISKCON’s Old Japanese Soldiers

Feb 12, 2010 6:44am

In 1974, Japanese soldier Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, complete with Samurai sword, was finally discovered on a Pacific island. For the past 30 years, he’d thought World War Two was still being fought. When I was 16, I was into all things Japanese. Martial arts, food, poetry, films. I thought that the...

The Festival of Colours

Feb 9, 2010 9:38am

Holi is a fun-filled spring festival celebrated on the last full moon day in the month of Phalguna. Known as the ‘Festival of Colours’ it is celebrated in different ways throughout the many regions of India. The most common element – held the day before the full moon – involves the...

How not to use the Bhagavad-gita

Feb 6, 2010 3:00am

Wouldn’t it be nice if all the religions could get along? Peacemakers like to suggest an impersonal way to do it. Sometimes they even try to use the Gita to support their ideas I spoke yesterday of well-intentioned people and their currently fashionable notions of atheism. What some thinkers are doing...

Why making God unfashionable and religion punishable never works

Feb 5, 2010 10:52am

North Korea, where even the words for ‘God’ and religion have been done away with (only to be replaced with a different type of religion, it seems) The notion that there is actually no God at all is fashionable at the moment. I can see why: people who actually care about...

British television news reports new school

Feb 2, 2010 10:07am

Here’s another television report on the new school. This is from a news programme that goes out around 6.30 pm. ...

All schools are ‘faith schools’ of one kind or another

Feb 1, 2010 12:18pm

For thousands of years, all schools were ‘faith schools’… The critics of faith schools – and religion in general – have now had a few days to register their comments on the opening of the new Krishna-Avanti School in north London. They have not been silent. The Krishna-Avanti School is a very...

The Dawkins Bell Curve

Jan 31, 2010 7:40am

I noticed that Prof. Dawkins has provoked more than the usual number of responses after writing an article in the Times. Some people are exasperated that he’s used the Haiti situation as an opportunity to again fly his flag, yet others are remarking that the scientist has, this time, gone...

Krishna-Avanti school: see inside for the first time

Jan 31, 2010 6:30am

Here is a film clip and an article published yesterday in the online edition of The Guardian newspaper. And a piece by Ruth Gledhill, religions correspondent of The Times ...

New School in north London

Jan 29, 2010 9:06am

New school is centred on traditional spiritual culture Plenty of room to play and learn A little more than ten minutes drive from Bhaktivedanta Manor you’ll find the new Krishna-Avanti school. I love the idea behind it, the architecture, and the boldness of its conception and execution in the heart of...