Urban Outfitters upsets Hindus 3rd time

Urban Outfitters (UO), a publicly traded retail company headquartered in Philadelphia (USA) which offers a variety of lifestyle merchandise, seems to have upset Hindus for the third time by offering an inappropriate product. It is selling online a Hindu goddess...

Boston museum displays art formed of Hindu bindis

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (ISGM) in Boston is currently exhibiting artwork titled “Not All Who Wander Are Lost”, which uses Hindu bindis as a signature element. Created by artist-in-residence England-born Bharti Kher for the Museum’s façade, it reflects on...

Hindu temple opens in Ohio with elaborate rituals

Sri Venkateswara Temple of Central Ohio has been formally launched in Powell with four-day long ancient rituals and celebrations. Grand Opening, Utsava Murthy Prana Prathishthapanam and Sri Venkateswara Kalyanotsavam celebrations included various poojas, homams,...

Unique $11 million Hindu Hanuman Temple opens in Texas

Frisco (Texas) now has a 34,000 square-foot Marakata Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple, reportedly costing over $11 million. This Temple, which opens daily, besides Hanuman as the main deity, also carries the murtis of Hindu deities Ganapati, Shiva, Rajeshwari, Ram Parivar,...

Zed asks Pope to clarify stand on yoga

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed is urging His Holiness Pope Francis to clarify his and Vatican’s official stand on yoga. Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Roman Catholic priests, bishops and other...