Author: Matt O'Brien

Source: Contra Costa Times

http://www.contracostatimes.com/localnews/ci_11921157?source=email

The Hindu festival of Holi is always a vibrant celebration of colors, but the college students who celebrated it in Berkeley last year never intended to paint Strawberry Creek a fruit-punch hue.

Tim Pine was leading a nature restoration group last March along the banks of the much-loved waterway that courses...

Author: Nicole Lyn Pesce

Source: New York Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/03/15/2009-03-15_happy_holi_day_for_hindus_with_splash_of.html

It's the one time of the year in New York you can toss colorful powder in a stranger's face and not get a fat lip for it.

About 200 people Saturday packed the Peking, a ship docked at the South Street Seaport to celebrate Holi - the...

Author: David Massey

Source: News-Journal

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/newEAST01031409.htm

Bright colors, jubilation and prayer chants filled a crowded little temple on Madison Avenue this week, as local Hindu people celebrated Holi festivities under bright moonlight.

The day after the full moon in the Hindu month of Phalguna, or early March, Indian people gather together...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Hinduism Today

http://www.hinduismtoday.com/hpi/2009/3/14.shtml#2

Each year, the Holi event at Fremont Hindu Temple promises colors, music, dance, free lunch and lots of fun for all ages. This year, the joyous festival will be celebrated Sunday, March 15.

"Every year around 600-800 people play Holi in Fremont Hindu Temple," says Ajay Jain Bhutoria, chairman of the Youth Committee. "On this day, people do not...

Author: Ashfaque Swapan

Source: New America Media/India West

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=5dbb57b1707ee3b07cb20c2abc5994e4

Despite virtually unanimous support in the scientific community, there is considerable public skepticism in the U.S. about Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, with 39 percent believing in the theory, according to a Gallup poll.

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Author: Barbara Karkabi

Source: The Houston Chronicle

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/6309820.html

Hundreds of people were covered with a rainbow of colors from India last Sunday as the Hindu community welcomed spring with its annual Holi Festival.

Even though organizers ordered four times more colored powder than last year, the powder thrown at and by festival goers still ran out by 2:45 p.m. But the partying...

Author: Bethany Bray

Source: The Andover Townsman

http://www.andovertownsman.com/homepage/local_story_070180318.html?keyword=leadpicturestory

Visitors to the Chinmaya Maruti center on Route 28 will soon be able to climb more than spiritual heights.

The Hindu worship and education center, the only Chinmaya Mission in New England, is in the middle of a $3.5 million construction project that will add...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Hindus-Muslims-celebrate-Lucknows-Holi-Baraat/rssarticleshow/4252309.cms

Amid shouts of "Holi hai", a large number of Hindus and Muslims came together here on Wednesday for a 40-year-old practise of jointly celebrating the festival of colours in the old quarter.

Dancing to the beat of drums,...

Author: Peter Gelling

Source: The New York Times

Author: Staff Writer

Source: India Realist

http://indianrealist.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/persecution-of-hindus-in-bangladesh/

The Amsterdam-based Global Human Rights Defense is out with its annual report on human rights violations in Bangladesh. Here is the section that relates to atrocities on the hapless Hindu minority in 2008.

BACKGROUND

Until 1971 Liberation War, Hindus and Muslims worked...

Author: Lisa Fernandez

Source: Mercury News

http://www.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_11862615

It's not every day you get to breathe life into a god in a room full of others from your hometown — a mere 8,000 miles across the globe.

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime event," said Pratik Mishra, 15, who attends St. Francis High School in Mountain View. "This is a big deal."

The big deal was a cultural and consecration ceremony this weekend...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Hindu-families-from-Pak-seek-refuge-in-India/articleshow/4239397.cms

Stating that they do not wish to return to Pakistan due to Taliban's tyranny in the tribal areas, a group 35 Hindus, nearly half of them women, from the neighbouring country have crossed over to India and asked the government to allow them to...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Hindu American Foundation

http://www.hinduamericanfoundation.org/?q=node/224

The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) joined the Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM) and other prominent NGO's in addressing a panel discussion on violence against minority women and girls in Bangladesh at the United Nations on March 6. The meeting brought together NGO's in consultative relationships with the...

Author: Barbara Karkabi

Source: The Houston Chronicle

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/6297468.html

Think of the Hindu Holi festival as Slumdog Millionaire goes to summer camp. It’s colorful, joyful, a little messy and a lot of fun.

The actual holiday, observed at local temples, is on Wednesday. But Sunday from 11 a.m.-4 p.m, the Hindu community invites Houstonians to celebrate the Festival of Colors 2, a...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Sindh Today

http://www.sindhtoday.net/south-asia/71231.htm

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla Parker-Bowles visited a massive temple in northwest London Wednesday to celebrate Holi with all the colour, music and dance of the festival, but were spared being doused in colour themselves.

The royal couple visited the Swaminarayan temple in Neasden, where they saw children throw coloured powder and water at each other....