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Hindu Sunday Schools Grow in Popularity

Comments (0) | Chinmaya Mission, Hinduism, Los Angeles and Region, Sunday School, Tustin

Hindu Sunday School at the Chinmaya Mission

Elise Hennigan
Contributor

While Hindus normally worship individually, Sunday school classes are becoming increasingly popular in the U.S.

Indian NGOs Use Religion to Help Clean Polluted Rivers

Comments (0) | Environment, Ganga Action, Ganges river, Hinduism, India, International, Swecha, WWF, Yamuna river

An abandoned statue of Krishna mixes with garbage by the Yamuna river.

Elise Hennigan
Contributor

How can Indian rivers be both sacred and the most polluted in the world?

Appeal of Sanskrit Goes Beyond Religion

Comments (0) | #india585, Cal Tech, Engineering, Hinduism, India, Language, Religion, Religion, Sanskrit, science

Kunal Mooley highlights the sentence that he has to read at a Sanskrit class at California Institute of Technology.

Megan Sweas
Staff Reporter

Cal Tech students study not only science and engineering but also the ancient language of Sanskrit.

Young Indians Continue the Home Altar Tradition

Comments (1) | altars, Ganesha, Hanuman, Hinduism, Religion, Vishnu

Statues of Ganesh (elycefeliz)

Elise Hennigan
Contributor

Home altars continue to be the spiritual centerpiece of Indian homes in America.

Punjab Election 2012: A Window Into India's Political Future

Comments (0) | Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, elections, elections 2012, Hindu, Hinduism, India, International, new delhi, Punjab, Punjab elections, SAD, secularization, Shiromani Akali Dal, Sikh, Sikhism

Jason Kehe
Contributor

Packed into the small-time election in Punjab last month, in which a very big change occurred, were issues that seem to be animating wide swaths of this evolving country’s political discourse — issues of opportunism, secularization and changing approaches to campaigning.