news.bbc.co.uk LONDON, ENGLAND, October 3, 2006: Deities made from clay, straw and organic vegetable dyes were immersed in the River Thames, West London, and hundreds from the Bengali community attended the ceremony. This is the first time the community was allowed to give a traditional Navaratri send-off to the Deities by the London port authorities. The Deities, belonging to a…
www.pib.nic.in NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 21, 2006: State governments have stepped up to the plate to try to offer assistance to Indian women who have had their marriages annulled by divorce decrees in other countries. So far the states of Gujarat, Haryana, Delhi, Maharastra, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal have received more than 100 cases. The Government of India news…
www.cybernoon.com MUMBAI, INDIA, October 1, 2006: The area of Madhav Baugh in Mumbai’s C. P. Tank area are getting ready to welcome the devotees of Goddess Durga. Every year area witnesses endless queues of devotees. The Kalbadevi Sarbajanin Durga Puja Committee (KSDPC), which has been celebrating Durga Puja at Madhav Baugh for the past 77 years, is a must visit…
www.hindu.com (HPI note: This issue of HPI is devoted to the many reports from around the world on the just-concluded Navaratri Festival.) ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA, September 28, 2006: The islanders from Andaman and Nicobar are pulling together to organize pujas for Durga this year. Falguni Ganguly, secretary of Atul Smriti Samity (a puja committee popularly known as Bengali Club of…
www.ndtv.com LONDON, ENGLAND, October 1, 2006: The Bengali community in Britain marked the opening of the festival with a number of events in London and other cities. Several hundred people gathered at a hall in the London district of Camden while a priest chanted prayers as worshippers lit incense sticks and offered food to the Goddess. This is a Durga…
www.hudsonreporter.com JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, October 1, 2006: From September 29 to October 7, a one block area of Newark Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey, will be the center of a huge religious and cultural block party. Navaratri 2006 is scheduled to take place on each of the days from 7 p.m. up to 2 a.m. (rain or shine).…
www.ndtv.com KOLKATA, INDIA, October 1, 2006: NDTV caught up with several foreigners in the city who had never seen anything like India’s Navaratri celebration before. They thought Christmas in the US and London was the most beautiful thing there could be, but that was before they came to Kolkata during the festival season. Meet Julie, David, Tyson and Marjorie. When…
cities.expressindia.com LUCKNOW, INDIA, October 1, 2006: For the first time over a dozen Durga Pujas in the city are being telecast live on three channels of Doordarshan. The channels on which the Durga Pujas are being telecast include DD-7 or DD-Bangla, DD’s cultural channel Bharti and the National Network channel or DD-1. Dr. Satish Grover, deputy director general of DDK-L,…
www.hindusangam.org.my KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, September 30, 2006: The Malaysia Hindu Sangam launched their e-mail edition of Sangam news on the first day of Navaratri. The first edition summarizes Sangam news, but does not link to their website. To sign up to have their e-mail newsletter delivered to your computer, e-mail: info@hindusangam.org.my.
Detroit Free Press HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN, August 22, 2006: (HPI note: Our thanks to a reader who pointed out this story, which had been missed at the time.) Members are still in shock and left scrambling for a place to worship after a fire burned the Hamtramck Bangladesh Hindu Temple to the ground. A steady stream of worshippers flocked to the…