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WASHINGTON, D.C., April 10, 2007: The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) is currently accepting applications for participation in its third annual summer internship program. Motivated interns will work with members of the Hindu American Foundation Executive Council to complete self-contained projects over the course of the summer. Internships are designed for 20 hours of work per week and will last for 8-12 weeks during the summer of 2007. Possible summer projects include web marketing, website development, public relations, interfaith dialogue, drafting of press releases and position papers, preparation of Hindu educational material, graphic design and various research projects.

LUCKNOW, INDIA, March 12, 2007: At a meeting held in Lucknow on March 12, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) discussed the issue of religious conversions in India. Speaking to over 1,400 delegates RSS national deputy chief Mohan Bhagwat said, "I do not deny that conversions had also taken place on account of ills in Hindu society, and that is why we are emphasizing on the need to reform ourselves. Our objective is to call upon the masses to sink differences of caste, sect and religion, as well as of political affiliations, in the larger interest of building social harmony and goodwill. Unless Hindu society gets rid of its ills, we cannot set a good example for those belonging to other faiths. The RSS is not opposed to schemes actually meant for the uplift of economically weak Muslims. We oppose the policy of minority appeasement followed by the central government. I wish to make it loud and clear that such a policy always obstructs Hindu-Muslim unity.

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NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 10, 2007: Leaders of several social groups from within the Hindu community, the Dalits included, were among the 4,000 who gathered at the open air theater in Pragati Maidan here Friday evening and took a pledge to end the caste divide that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar warned would harm India's progress in the long run. A seven-point action plan that Ravi Shankar unveiled at the meeting and which the thousands of men and women accepted with their right hands outstretched included an immediate end to the ban on the entry of Dalits ("Untouchables") into Hindu temples in parts of India. The other aspects of the action plan are ending the practice of keeping separate utensils for the use of Dalits in eateries and also providing religious and spiritual education to Dalit children. "The anger of the past should not engulf us and divide the country. The fear and communication gap between communities is what is keeping us apart," he said in a brief address.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, March 3, 2007: In one of world's biggest devotional congregations of women, thousands performed the Pongal ritual at the famous Attukal Devi temple in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday. The entire city became a virtual sea of women when, cutting across caste, class and even religious barriers, women converged to cook the prasadam of rice and jaggery in fresh earthen pots on make-shift hearths, seeking the blessing of the presiding Goddess of the shrine.

Hailed as the women's Sabarimala, the Pongal has even made it to the Guinness Book of Records as a religious event that attracts the largest number of women on a single day. Devotees waited on city roads, streets and by-lanes hours before the ritual began at 10:45 am, when the holy hearth near the temple was lit by the chief priest. Within seconds, the fire exchanged hands and thousands of hearths were lit, making the rice-filled pots bubble and boil over.