It is Sun Five of a wonderful phase. The Ganapati Kulam gave news today. The completion of the April issue of Hinduism Today print edition was top of the list.

We are also engineering a coverage of Thai Pusam in Malaysia for a major feature story next issue. Rajiv Malik our correspondent from Delhi was flown in to cover the event. Rohini Kumar lead the video team for a short documentary film for the event and several photographers were enlisted. This give you some sense of Hinduism Today’s grow editorial “strength” to be able to arrange coverage for news like this.

Other “back burner” projects are moving forward in the books realm, Children’s Course proofs, Living with Siva Pocket Book.

We are also “aggressively” upgrading our digital resouces CMS (Content Management System) the Portfolio catalog is showing 350,000 files in it’s database and Robin and other sevaks have been going through these, putting in metadata, keywords, fixing file names so that we can have good access to all these resources.

From the web team you will find a new web application coming on line soon, which is an upgraded Hindu lexicon with 3,600 words with super fast access, including cross references just link you see in our books.

We are also working with another new internet provider, Dreamhost to serve movies in various format via a streaming server. You can check it out… Go to our Video library page and click on the Parampara video link to see some new options.

Of course, the recent release of What Is Hinduism is starting to gain traction. Go to our web store and click on “Books.” Don’t miss getting your copy on line today!

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END OF PHASE
Today is the last day of our phase.
This edition of TAKA will remain posted
over our coming two-day retreat,
until Navami Tithi, Sun One, Sunday, February 11th.

The weatherman was wrong again!!!

Its another beautiful day and we are again down at the
carving site of the Iraivan Temple where an unidentified
visitor is chipping away at the same flower that hundreds or
perhaps thousands of visitors have chipped away before him
. . to no avail . . with barely a mark on the stone! “My
goodness, that stone is really hard!”

. . . Even “Grandma Jaya”
tried to bring that flower to life.

Here are this morning’s
visitors from Mumbai, Gujarat, Canada and America. All
declared their full intention to return for the Maha Kumbha
Abhishekam of this very sacred temple, God Siva’s Iraivan
Temple.

A little statue of Gurudeva in the Ganapati
Kulam….

Kulapati Deva Seyon at satsang in Mauritius….