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TRINIDAD, September 10, 2024 (Trinidad Express): Youths play a crucial role in maintaining culture by acting as bridges between their ancestral heritage and contemporary society. They are instrumental in preserving traditions, languages and values through active participation in cultural events, religious practices and community organizations. By embracing and promoting their cultural identity, young members of the diaspora ensure the continuity…

UBUD, INDONESIA, August 26, 2024 (Monga Bay): Inside the small, open-air stone temple in the center of the Lotudunduh rice fields, a farmer wraps a sarong and sash around his mud-spattered work clothes. Suitably dressed in baju adat, or traditional dress, to approach the Gods, he places a small offering of brightly colored flowers in a platter of woven palm…

DENPASAR, BALI, May 18, 2024 (Antara News): Around 2,500 delegates of the 10th World Water Forum are taking part in Segara Kerthi, a Balinese traditional water purification ritual, on Serangan Beach within the Kura-Kura Special Economic Zone (SEZ), Denpasar, Bali Province. “This ritual is a means to ask for blessings, so that the sea, as a water resource, can be…

GUYANA, August 12, 2024 (Stabroek News): Hundreds of Hindu youths from various regions across the country gathered last Saturday for the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha Youth Summit. The two-day event, held at the Pandit Reepu Daman Persaud Dharmic Sanskritik Kendra in Prashad Nagar, in Georgetown, was themed “Empowering Hindu Youth Leadership: Leveraging Hindu Wisdom and Cultural Expression for Positive Social…

SUGAR LAND, TEXAS, September 12, 2024 (Houston Chronicle): Leaders of the Ashtalakshmi Temple in Sugar Land are hiring security guards and installing cameras after members of the Humble-based Awakening Generation Church protested a 90-foot statue of the Deity Hanuman and told visitors Jesus is the only God. “We never planned for security, we never thought we would need it,” Dr.…

PUNE, INDIA, September 8, 2024 (Jagran): Ganesh Chaturthi 2024: Devotion met grandeur on the second day of Ganesh Mahotsav when 42,000 women devotees performed an enthralling morning Ganpati aarti at the Shreemant Dagduseth Halwai Ganpati temple in Pune on Sunday as festivals take off across the nation. The famous Pune temple reverberated with holy chants as women devotees flocked in…

UNITED STATES, September 3, 2024 (Sciengine): Solar eclipses are among the most spectacular and mysterious astronomical events observed since antiquity. Recently, astronomers have even identified a mention of a total solar eclipse in the Rig Veda, an ancient Hindu text, which could date back around 6,000 years. This discovery highlights how ancient texts can enrich our understanding of historical celestial…

KAUAI, HAWAII, September 14, 2024 (Hinduism Today): Hinduism Today magazine is seeking a free-lance writer to create a paid story on Hindu home shrine rooms among the immigrant community in the West. Story would run 2500 words or so including interviews and explanation about the importance of the home shrine in the Hindu tradition. Interested writers may contact us at…