Yoga Journal, in partnership with Gaia, is hosting the “Live Be Yoga Tour”—a six-month cross-country tour documenting yoga in America. It stops at yoga studios, festivals, farms, prisons, healthcare facilities, and events in over 20 major cities and small towns in...
Hindus are urging The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) in Pennsylvania to include Diwali, the most popular Hindu holy day, as a school holiday in their 2017-2018 school calendar and beyond. The 2016-2017 Academic Calendar of SDP showed that administrative offices...
In its recently adopted resolution—”The List of Religious Holidays Permitting Student Absence from School”—New Jersey State Board of Education (NJSBE) listed 19 Hindu festivals. It included four festivals in October itself, including Navaratri, which alone...
In a workshop, Hinduism was reportedly recently introduced to students of Lomond School in coastal Helensburgh, Scotland; a fully integrated 3 to 18 year co-educational institution. Students of Lomond School, formed in 1977 but whose history goes back to 1845, were...
Bharatiya Temple & Cultural Center (BTCC) of Greater Lafayette in West Lafayette (Indiana, USA) has completed traditional installation of statues of Hindu deities. BTCC, which formally opened in 2012, now reportedly has statues of Shiv-Parivar, Vishnu-Parivar,...
“Cave Temples Of Dunhuang” exhibition continuing till September four at the renowned Getty Center in Los Angeles reportedly includes wall paintings of Hindu deities Shiva, Ganesha and Narayana. This exhibition features rare objects found at the famous Mogao caves...
