In fact, many Hindu temples have taken on the tasks of imparting Indian classical dance and music, regional language lessons and yoga to the children. For example,the Ganesha Pathshala at theHinduTempleinFlushingruns religion classes as well as language classes, teaching Hindi, Telegu, Tamil, Kan...
Brahmacharya[61] Sermon [Various] English It teaches from multiple well-known Hindu gurus, such as Swami Vivekananda and modern ones like Sadhguru. Brahmakumaris Light House[62] Sermon Suraj Bhai Hindi, English BKWSU Shaiva This channel also has a few sermons from other BK’s, such as BK ...
Admit it: you didn’t expect Bengali to be on the list of most spoken languages. The Partition of Bengal by the British in 1947 divided (mainly Hindu) West Bengal, now part of India, from its (mainly Muslim) counterpart East Bengal, now Bangladesh. It is the language of Kolkata, the ...
In Hindi works we can see a broad process of Sanskritization in terms of conventions, styles, themes, and language. Although writers did not have malevolent intentions, their pauran&dotbelow;ik literature inadvertently contributed to Hindu-centric imaginings of the Indian nation which helped create...
“camel” but Bengaliuṭ, Oriyaoṭɔ, Sindhiuṭhu, Lahnda, Pahariuṭṭh, and so on. Assamese also hassfor earliercandchsounds and azsound forjandjh; e.g.,Assamesekas“glass,” Bengalikac; Assameseazi“today,” Oriyaaji, Bengali, Hindiaj. In addition, Assamese replaced ans...
“hindu heartland” and also home to an estimated 43 million muslims, the largest such total in the country. and the northwestern corner of the state, where i was headed, was a particularly active fault line of sectarian violence and paranoia. in the summer of modi’s election, for ...
Hindi movie industryglobalizationIndian movie industry, notably Bollywood, has come a long way in the last two centuries. All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images having been turned into a multi-pronged and vast economic empire. Today ...
As we walked around the street on Diwali, we walked into a Hindu temple where we received our first-ever Hindu blessing. It was an amazing process of the Hindu Pandit (priest) reciting something as he moved a tray with a burning flame around a shrine 5 times. We then had to put our...
Interesting fact:The city got its name as it was adorned with date palms and “Khajura’ means date palms in Hindi. It was also often called Khajjurpura in ancient times. Entry fee:Indians- INR 10 Foreigners- INR 250 (only for the western temples, rest are free) ...
in the Tamil Nadu. The best the BJP could hope for in the state is to forge an alliance with other minor parties and increase its vote share. Tamil Nadu has been in the forefront in rejecting the Hindutva policies of BJP and the chances are that the BJP will not gain foothold in ...