Arya Samaj Houston Celebrates Diwali with Drive-through Food Stalls
Houston:The current situation has changed almost every aspect of our lives. And as the pandemic continues into the holiday season, the Arya Samaj management realized that it was more important than ever to hold the annual Diwali celebration, while observing all the pandemic safety precautions. Led by its dedicated volunteers, Arya Samaj Greater Houston hosted […]
Meenakshi Temple Celebrates Diwali with Covid-19 Precautions
Pearland: Sri Meenakshi Temple Society celebrated Diwali on Saturday, Nov 14th 2020. Due to the current unprecedented COVID pandemic, Diwali this year was celebrated in a much more subdued mode without the traditional bazaar, fireworks, kids’ carnival activities and Rath yathra. Advance information was provided in the weeks prior to the event that the temple […]
Grand 9th International Diwali-Dussehra Festival
Houston: Shri Sita Ram Foundation, USA (a nonprofit) celebrates Diwali Dussehra Festival every year in the Biggest and The Grandest Way Possible. This epic celebration from Houston, has grown tremendously since it started and continues to reach more and more all over the world every year. The foundation team finds innovative, unique ways to share […]
Durga Puja at Vedanta Society of Greater Houston Streamed Online
By Sanchali Basu Houston: As the saying goes, “One has to change and keep up with the times,” Durga Puja at the Vedanta Society of Greater Houston (VSGH) also had to evolve with the times. In this unprecedented year of the COVID pandemic, only volunteers who were directly involved with the Puja were allowed inside […]
Hindu Groups Offended by Caricature of Kamala as Durga
Houston: Hindu groups in the US have sought an apology from the niece of Senator Kamala Harris for tweeting an ‘offensive’ image, which depicted the Democratic vice presidential nominee as goddess Durga. The tweet has now been deleted by Meena Harris, 35, who is a lawyer, a children’s book author and the founder of the […]
Shri Sita Ram Foundation’s 9th International Diwali-Dussehra Festival
Houston: Diwali & Dussehra is the largest festival of India celebrated by more than 1.35 billion people world wide. Shri Sita Ram Foundation has organized this festival in the Houston area on a large scale in the fall of each year since 2012 to a capacity crowd of over 10,000 people at Skeeters Stadium in […]
Chinmaya e-Bala Vihar Zooms in a New Year of Online Vedic Learning
By Padmashree Rao Houston: In a pandemic-stricken world, where life, work and relationships have been redefined, learning too has taken a new online face. To evolve through such a challenging time, technology has zoomed in through many platforms to replace empty hallways and classrooms of education with fully charged homes of learning, both secular and […]
Review of Reflections @ 50: Legacy of Hindus in North America
By Thara Narasimhan REFLECTIONS@50: WALKING IN DHARMA held on Sept. 20th, 2020 included the # 6 Panel discussion on Hindu American Vanaprasti Network (HAVAN) with a chosen topic “ The Legacy of the Hindus in North America.” The panelists consisted of diverse background of professionals to share their views about the contribution of Hindus in […]
Reflections @ 50: Hinduism Has Profound Impact on the West
By Manu Shah Houston: The Hindu way of life and thinking, far from being a mystical eastern religion, has had a profound influence on the west, leading to successes on American soil, not in terms of material wealth, but in individual satisfaction with immense self- content. Four outstanding personalities from different walks of life […]
Sri Meenakshi Temple Holds 9th Annual 5k-Walkathon 2020
Pearland: This year’s MTS Annual 5-K Walkathon was held on September 13th, Sunday unlike in the month of March every year. The event had to be postponed twice due to COVID-19 and temple closure. Yet despite the pandemic the custom of conducting this health awareness annual event in our temple came to reality. Though the […]
Hindus of Greater Houston E-Janmashtami 2020 Online Parade
By Thara Narasimhan Houston: Hindus of Greater Houston celebrated E- Janmashtami 2020 Photo and Video parade online this year, that was an outstanding success. Thanks to the parents enthusiasm to register on our website and submit a lovely array of most charming kids with their photos and some with videos. A total of 197 participants […]
International Panelists Reflect on 50 Years of the Hindu-American Contributions
By Shobhana Muratee Houston: REFLECTIONS@50: WALKING IN DHARMA is a power packed virtual conference to be held on Sept 19-20, 2020 as a community outreach effort toward deeper understanding of the contribution of Hindus in America in the past five decades. Organized by the World Hindu Council of America (VHPA), the 2-day conference is commemorative […]
Mind Management Challenge: 21 Days, 21 Videos, 21 Steps to #PerfectYourMind
Houston: Mind Management Challenge starting Sep. 11, 2020 on YouTube by Swami Mukundananda, world-renowned mind management expert and bestselling author is a set of FREE 21 Videos, 21 Tools and 21 Steps to #PerfectYourMind! Read to know how it can help you! Swami Mukundananda, global spiritual leader is a senior disciple of Jagadguru Shri Kripaluji […]
Hindu Heritage Virtual Youth Camp Surpasses All Expectations
By Manu Shah Houston: A Hindu Heritage Youth Camp (HHYC) in Houston adapted and evolved to the COVID 19 era by hosting a virtual camp. Probably one of the rare few in the country to do so, the camp surpassed all expectations with parents and happy campers asking for its continuation on a weekly basis. […]
Swami Parthasarathy Presents Talk on Personal Rehabilitation
Houston: On Sunday, July 26th Swami Parthasarathy addressed the world on the topic of ‘Personal Rehabilitation, Concern to Composure’. For 50 years, Swamiji has delivered a message in honor of Guru Purnima, normally to thousands of people in the auditoriums of India. At the age of 93, for the first time online, Swamiji spoke to […]
City Engineer Jay Patel Wins Public Works Award
Houston: Jay Patel, P.E., Supervising Engineer for City of Houston Public Works Department, was recently awarded Professional Manager of the Year in the Facilities and Grounds Category by the Texas Chapter of the American Public Works Association. This award recognizes outstanding achievement in the area of administration within the Houston Public Works Department and inspires […]
HWS Bhoomi Puja for New Shiv Mandir and Construction Starts
BY JAWAHAR MALHOTRA Houston: several months of planning and design effort for the Shiv Temple at the Hindu Worship Society, a bhumi puja was held on Friday, July 24 at a mahurat (auspicious time) decided by HWS priest Bhawani Shankar Shastri ji. City and county guidelines were observed for the ceremony, which was attended, […]
Bhoomi Puja in Ayodhya by PM Modi: “Centuries of Wait Has Ended”
Ayodhya: The decades-long wait to see a permanent home for Lord Ram built in Ayodhya, the perceived birthplace of the deity ended on Wednesday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the Ram temple on the site in a grand ceremony. Bhajans and ‘shlokas’ were heard as the Ayodhya, festooned with marigold […]
Hindus in USA Gear Up for a Virtual Prayer for ‘Shree Ram Mandir Poojan’
Tampa, Florida: As the Ayodhya administration in India is getting ready for the foundation laying ceremony of the Lord Ram temple on Wednesday, August 5, the Hindu Mandir Executives’ Conference (HMEC) & Hindu Mandir Priests’ Conference (HMPC) have called for a virtual collective national prayer across America to rejoice in the upcoming “Shree Ram Mandir […]
9th Annual Vedic Fair: Amazing Eight Hours of Facebook Live Performance
HOUSTON: Ninth Annual Vedic Fair, the first ever LIVE Virtual celebrations of India, happened in Houston on Saturday July 25th. It was an amazing 8 hours non-stop LIVE program that kept audience glued to their screens from start to finish. The Fair featured Yoga showcase by World renowned Yogini Kaliji and various diverse aspects of […]
