Source HOUSTON, TEXAS, August 23, 2018 (Indo American News): : Hindus of Greater Houston (HGH) presented their 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award to Beth Kulkarni for her volunteerism and inspirational service to the community for nearly four decades. The award was presented on August 25 at the Janmashtami celebrations at George Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston. Bollywood legend Anupam Kher…
Source TEA, SOUTH DAKOTA, August 26, 2018 (KDLT News): The Hindu Temple of Siouxland has been working to open a new place to worship for nearly a decade. Last spring, the group broke ground in Tea. “This community has been trying to build this temple since 2009 and it’s really a community dream that’s going to come true very soon.…
Source AFRICA, September 9, 2018 (Modern Ghana): The September 7-9 World Hindu Congress (WHC-18) in Chicago included a delegation from the Hindu Monastery of Africa headed by a former Communications Minister, Victoria Hamah. Victoria Hammah also happens to be the representative of the Women and Female Youth of the Monastery. Other members of the delegation were Mr. Attoh – the…
Source — “A” is the first and source of all the letters. Even so is God Primordial the first and source of all the world.
Source INDIA, September 6, 2018 (Tree Ganesha): The Tree Ganesha is made of red soil, organic fertilizer, natural color and seeds. This unique statue is designed to grow into a tree after immersion. The creator and founder, Dattadri Kothur, believes the Ganesha festival is the celebration of nature and strongly supports the cause of environment friendly celebrations. He has been…
Source CHENNAI, INDIA, August 24, 2018 (The Hindu): A majority of temples in and around Chennai have undergone restoration and a lot of inscriptions have been lost in the process, according to historian Chitra Madhavan. Delivering a talk on Temples in and around Chennai, she lamented the “lack of sensitivity and the lack of knowledge of the importance of inscriptions…
Source GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS, September 9, 2018 (India New England): After almost three years of extensive design, planning and construction, the New England Shirdi Sai Parivaar Temple (NESSP) announced that the world’s largest temple outside India dedicated to late 19th-century Indian spiritual saint Sai Baba of Shirdi will hold its grand opening ceremony on Oct. 9-21, 2018, in Groton, MA. The…
Source As to a mountain that’s enflamed, deer and birds do not resort–so, with knowers of God, sins find no shelter.— Krishna Yajur Veda, Maitreya Upanishads 6.18
Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, September 2, 2018 (Tribune India): Nepal’s famous Krishna temple built in Indian Sikhara style was reopened for the public on Sunday for the first time after 3 years after a deadly 2015 earthquake that left much of the country’s cultural heritage in ruins. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit on April 25 killed more than 8,700 people and…