Sri Lakshmi Ganapathi Temple November Events
Saturday, November 2nd: Skandha sasthi soora samharam. Evening at 4.00 PM skandha sashti kavadi festival special pooja abhishekam, continued with Sri Venkatesw
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Can the Public Charge Rule Deny Your Green Card?
A recent Politico survey shows that 80% of Indians who applied for green cards were initially denied by a new Public Charge rule, but were able to reverse the d
“Where is the question of the Bhagavad Gita being a religious text?”
San Jose State University, in the heart of Silicon Valley, was the perfect home for the Global Bhagavad Gita Convention (GBGC) on Oct. 19 - 20, 2019. The Center
Why Do I Feel Ethnic Pride?
Desi Roots, Global Wings “Ethnic Pride” is defined as the positive feeling that fills a person’s heart because of her being a member of a particular ethni
Frida Kahlo and Amrita Sher-Gil: Soul Sisters
At the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Frist Museum of Art in Nashville, a pair of dark eyes followed me. The exhibition displayed an expressive vista of twentieth-c
The Forest of Enchantment: It is Sita’s Story, Not Ram’s
Chitra Divakaruni Banerjee’s book The Forest of Enchantments is a retelling of the Ramayana with Sita at the center of the tale. The plot of the epic tale -
3rd i’s Film Festival Comes Back to the Bay Area
3rd i's 17th annual SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL will present some of the best cinema from India, Sri Lanka and the USA. Cutting-edge i
The Sky is Pink is an Emotional Rollercoaster
Mom: “Why are you crying?” Son: The teacher scolded me in class. Mom: Why? Son: Because I colored the sky pink. She told me it’s blue, not pink. Change it
RaajneeTEEN: A Chat with Deepa Mahesh
The 2020 presidential election is not a race. It is a battlefield. Scattered across its rugged landscape is an onslaught of tweets and hashtags, opinions hurled
Ask a Lawyer – When Aging Parents Need Help With Legal Affairs
If you immigrated to America and have aging parents in India, you are facing a common dilemma – how to help parents who are increasingly unable to manage thei
“Like An Indian Christmas” — Diwali for an (Indian) Scrooge
My mother’s eyes sparkled as I knelt beside her. Her white chalk scraped against the entrance to our house, adding wispy flowers between rows of hollow diamon
Finding the Light in Diwali
My childhood teacher Rammurti Mishra was, both, a yogi and a Western-trained psychiatrist. He liked to tell traditional stories like the Ramayana from a psychol
