Serenity by Samia
HOUSTON: Houston’s popular public figure Samia Adil launched her clothing line Serenity by Samia last Thursday on June 11, at The Marque in City Center. It was an intimate, exclusive event attended by a diverse crowd of socialites, bloggers, fashionistas, entrepreneurs and her well-wishers. Samia decided to kick off her clothing line with main focus […]
Malayalee Community Seeks Answers, Redress for Home Invasions
By Jawahar Malhotra STAFFORD: The turnout by the area’s Malayalee community surprised even the organizers themselves, making more than one of the invited police chiefs and elected officials exclaim at the number of people who showed up at the Knanaya Catholic Center in Missouri City. More than one said the crowd of nearly 400 who […]
Convention Allows Alumni to Renew Ties with Aligarh University
By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: Usually held by rotation in different cities in North America, the Bayou City was fortunate enough to once again be the host to the 14th Annual Convention of the Federation of Aligarh Alumni Associations after an absence of just one year. “It’s usually held according to city where the Federation president […]
Houston’s Mayor Parker Appoints Sanjay Ramabhadran to the METRO Board
HOUSTON: Houston Mayor Annise Parker has appointed Sanjay Ramabhadran to the Metropolitan Transit Authority (METRO) and the appointment was confirmed by Houston City Council on May 27, 2015. He becomes the first Indian-American to serve on the METRO Board. METRO operates a regional multimodal transportation system across 1,300 square miles with 2,663 route miles, a […]
Samskriti to Present Award-Winning Documentary, Cosmic Connection
HOUSTON: COSMIC CONNECTION is not just a run-of-the-mill documentary, but a labor of love, conceived and directed with meticulous care by Seetha Ratnakar, a freelance film director and artistic consultant for dance productions, and former Assistant Station Director, Doordarshan (Indian Television Network). COSMIC CONNECTION won a Golden Remi (Ethnic/Culture) Award at the 2014 WorldFest International […]
Deva Snana, Bathing Ceremony of Lord Jagannath
HOUSTON: As part of the “Greater Houston Rath Yatra” celebrations, Deva Snana, bathing ceremony of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra was celebrated at ISKCON temple on Sunday, June 14, with much pomp and ceremony. Deva Snana is the first occasion in the year when the deities are brought out from the sanctum sanctorum […]
Center For Gayatri Consciousness: A Temple of Ma Gayatri
HOUSTON: Gayatri Pariwar Houston cordially invites all the members of local community for the opening ceremonies of the “Center for Gayatri Consciousness”, a temple of Ma Gayatri. The opening ceremonies commence with a seven day Bhagvat Puran katha by Resp. Pragya Putri Rashmiben Patel from June 17, Wednesday. The Pran Pratishtha ceremony of the idols […]
Hiba Kazim Weds Hadi Mirza
By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: For this young, modern Muslim couple born and brought up in the USA, the road to their wedding started almost a year in a most traditional manner. A family friend of the boy’s family who lives in San Francisco suggested to his parents that a suitable girl lived in Houston. A […]
Gandhi Returns Home, Meets Tilak, Gokhale
Great Summer Project For children! Enter Mahatma Gandhi Week 2015 Essay, I-Tribute, Poster and Speech contests. Visit gandhilibrary.org for registration and more information. All school going children can participate! These contests are being organized to create higher awareness of the inspiring life and work of Mahatma Gandhi to promote universal values of Truth, Non-Violence, Love […]
The “Nabakalebara” of the Lord of the Universe
HOUSTON: “Vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya, navani grhnati naro parani, tatha sarirani vihaya jirnany, anyani samyati navani dehi” So says the Bhagbat Gita. The most fundamental belief system of the “Sanatana Dharma” that puts human birth and death into a cycle is the essence of the above verse. As if to remind us of this truth, […]
Transitioning from the Backyard to the Schoolyard
Best in Class Education Center offers tips for parents and students to make the shift between schools as smooth as possible As the dog days of summer start to cool and the beginning of the school year peeks over the horizon, yet another “first day of school” comes to the forefront of both students’ and […]
Going Digital with the Indian Classics
By Aseem Kulkarni BOSTON: Diversity in India is nothing new. Whether it is language, religion, cuisine, etc., diversity is celebrated. The same can be said about the Indian classics. And in an effort to preserve and venerate this idea, Harvard University Press, along with the Infosys Murthy family, have teamed up to create the digital […]
Discarded People Find a Welcoming Home Tucked Away, Out of Sight
By Jawahar Malhotra NEW DELHI: In this megacity of over 20 million people, for the forlorn and clueless; those who have been discarded by society as unstable, mentally ill, unfit and unwanted, even after they are dead and the bodies lie unclaimed; for those whose families have deemed them to be more of a bother […]
Mama’s Punjabi Recipes: Jalebi (Fried Sweet Flour Spirals)
Some dishes that originated in Northern India have been so widely accepted that they are available all around the country now, especially the sweet desserts. Gulab jamun (fried rose colored ball); rus gullas (syrup soaked sponge balls); burfi (evaporated milk wedges); ladoos (chickpea flour balls) are just some of these. To this list, you must […]
Yeh Hai Mohabbatein: Ishita to catch Aditya and Vinnie together in her house!
Ishita will catch Aditya and Vinnie sneaking around inside her house. How will she react? Read on to find out! In the last episode, we saw Ishita(Divyanka Tripathi) advising Raman(Karan Patel)to have a talk with Aditya and tell him that lying is bad. Raman had a conversation with Adi, asking him to never lie again and the […]
Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi: Will Ritika succeed in killing Ishani?
The show is making some interesting twists and turns; keeping the audience on an edge In the recent episode of Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi, Ishani (Radhika Madan) finally learns that Ranveer (Shakti Arora) is not the father of Ritika’s (Smriti Khanna) unborn baby. Even Sharman (Gautam Gupta) confirms that the baby is not his and it […]
Shraddha Kapoor – The new box office darling in Bollywood!
She maybe just five films old but Ms Kapoor has already become the box office darling. And that is something which not many people have noticed. But that’s not the case with us… I am pretty sure very few of you remember that Shraddha Kapoor made her Bollywood debut with Amitabh Bachchan. Their film Teen Patti released […]
