... Pakistan and Bangladesh differ greatly on issues of religion, politics and human rights. Of the three, only India identifies as secular and as a democracy and supports equal (or extra) rights for minorities. The three...

...find the celebration in Guyana and among Guyanese in New York to be more enthusiastic than in the villages in India. The celebrations we have in Queens or in Guyana and Trinidad are much bigger and far more entertaining ...

...nized Israel’s potential as a trading partner, Pakistan backed Islamic terrorism in India, and a change in India’s domestic politics. CONCLUSION India’s post-independence political opportunism and diplomatic animus to...

...t years as couples seek to publicly mark weddings, engagements, and anniversaries in a permanent way. Besides New York, "love locks" can be found on public monuments and bridges in Venice, St. Petersburg and Paris amongs...

...ce Hinduism as a faith to people who may have seen it as solely the purview of those who have a connection to India. Dharmasetu Das knows all about that. The 55-year-old white man, whose original first name was David and...

...tment. They were among the first to build Hindu places of worship in the United States. In the Queens area of New York alone, there are over 60 temples founded by Caribbean Hindus. The issues of concern to this community...

...f lawlessness in the wake of Sandy. Tens of thousands of New York people need housing after superstorm Sandy, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. US-based Hindu group has endorsed Obama in his re-election bid, al...

...ndo-Caribbean people hailing from Jamaica and Guyana. The festival is celebrated in different ways throughout India. In the state of Gujarat, the traditional "garba" dance is frequently done. Navratri is followed a few w...

...nted in her form of yoga. There's no Sanskrit in her yoga. Bikram is about Sanskrit. Bikram is about India. She's quintessentially American." Adding value Deshpandé taught the case for the first time this past ...

...isit the site to ascertain the situation on-the-spot.” While expressing deepest sorrow, the Sikh Coalition in New York said that it was in touch with both the FBI’s Civil Rights Division and the White House and both had ...

...p in Education, Income A poster displaying the religions of India and the Indian flag hang on the wall at the India Heritage Camp in 2006. A new study shows Hindus are more educated and earn more than any other religion ...

...mandu, Nepal FOR more than two decades, Nepal, a resource-rich, impoverished country wedged between China and India, has teetered between paralysis and upheaval. Its people have witnessed the transition, in 1990, from an...

...chers, doctors, today now. So I really feel proud.” I wondered if his pride will make this teenager, far from India more caste-conscious than he would otherwise be. And what about his friends, here at the ceremony? I ask...

...rk City, and Margaret Noble in London would set up salons and avidly spread the word—and even followed him to India. With the vast contacts and shrewd networking of these women, his talks in Cambridge and Manhattan becam...

...11: Pakistan v Bangladesh,March 13: India v Sri Lanka, March 15: Pakistan v Sri Lanka, March 16: Bangladesh v India, March 18: Pakistan v India, March 20: Bangladesh v Sri Lanka. The final will be played on March 22. Pak...

...metime. Not being an expert on the evolution of yoga, I first did a quick google search of “yoga competitions India” and noticed that while they exist, they seem to be far newer than the “century” old competitions Rajash...

...group of Americans as well as students from other countries like Mexico, Guyana, and Columbia. He also became New York University’s Hindu Chaplain in 2007. His residual time is spent lecturing to colleges and schools on...

...design of the earrings was “not a Nazi symbol.” “I don’t know what’s the problem. My earrings are coming from India as a Buddhist symbol,” she said. In Hindu culture, the Swastika is depicted as an equilateral cross with...

... the Strait of Hormuz, pivotal for global oil trade. Will India be forced to take sides? An expert weighs in. India loves Nokia, but does it love Nokia’s newest smartphone, the Microsoft-powered Lumia? Reviewers like it ...

... police department for their prompt and professional investigation of these attacks, and express gratitude to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and U.S Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) for their st...

...ic senators, like New York’s Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, have also been predictably quiet about the New York protests.  You don’t bite the hands that feed you, do you? In the US corruption is systemic.  Rules a...

...ion of Hindus who returned to India to reconnect with the ancient roots of the faith. He traveled to Haryana, India in the 1990s to study with a Guru and pursue a lifelong study of Shri Ramcharitamanas, a sixteenth-centu...

...e will eat out of an Indian chef’s cooking pot on July 29. India-born Vikas Khanna, who has also been voted New York’s hottest chef, has been invited to whip up some ‘spiritual food’ at the Hindu American Seva Co...