by arnav.kejriwal | Feb 19, 2020 | Blog, Temples
I stepped out from the crowded car into a haphazard, narrow, dusty street. The sun beat down on the single-floor cement homes that lined the alley-like road, and the local villagers of Peddapalli closed around me in the afternoon bustle. Bits of Urdu and Telugu...
by Parth Parihar | Aug 16, 2016 | Blog, HSC Articles, HSC Newsletter
Allegra Lovejoy. — In June, I had the honor of joining fifty-five other young religious leaders in a GreenFaith Climate Convergence to learn about challenges presented by climate change in Louisiana and to find our voices in responding to ecological destruction. The...
by Parth Parihar | Aug 16, 2016 | Blog, HSC Articles, HSC Newsletter
Rishika Dewan. — Janmashtami. It was one of those words that my phone had learned to recognize so well that it autocompleted “Jan” to Janmashtami rather than January, a fact that I was secretly a little too proud of. (I had also felt really accomplished when my phone...
by Parth Parihar | Aug 4, 2016 | Blog, Hindu Dharma 101
Aravindan Neelakandan* — Introduction Many often object to using the word “Hindu” because it is a term given to us by outsiders. This supposition about the origin of the identifying moniker has itself been used to make the claim that there...
by Parth Parihar | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog, HSC Articles, HSC Camp
Mahika Jhangiani. — Culture is a way of life of a group of people. The behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along from one generation to the next. Culture is the values you emulate...
