BY SONAM MIRPURI
CHINO HILLS, CA - Vicharan, or the act of traveling for the personal and spiritual advancement of others, embodies Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s life motto, “In the joy of others lies our own.” Carrying forward the efforts and lifework of Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Mahant Swami Maharaj greeted devotees from around the west coast with...

EDISON - ​Edison, NJ – Sravanth Malla correctly spelled the word “Chytridiales” (an order of simple, aquatic fungi of the phylum Chytridiomycota) during the 2017 South Asian Spelling Bee finals to clinch the title of national champion and took home a cash prize of $3,000. Sreeniketh Vogoti from St. Johns, Florida was the National 1st Runner-Up at the Touchdown Media initiative on Aug.4, which was taped live for broadcast on Sony Entertainment Television...

LOS ANGELES,CA- Indian Actor Ali Fazal was super excited to meet Bollywood’s evergreen beauty Sridevi and Hollywood actor-director Dustin Hoffman at a gala dinner here. Ali, who is currently in the US to promote his film “Victoria & Abdul”, attended the annual Hollywood Foreign Press Association dinner. It was a fan boy moment for Ali when he met Sridevi, and then he met Hoffman. Talking about it Ali said: 

​BY DEVIKA C. MEHTA
LOS ANGELES, CA - Indian patriarchal society has played an active role in creating reservations and inhibitions for women, who want to dream and break free from the cultural divide. However, times have changed and so have traditions; the younger generation is now eager to get rid of all taboos and believe in adorning a...

BY DEVIKA C.MEHTA
LOS ANGELES, CA - ‘Yug’ is era, ‘Purush’ is the man and ‘Yugpurush’ means the iconic person of a particular era.
The brilliant thought came alive on July 22, when two of the most iconic personalities of India, Mahatma Gandhi and his mentor Shrimad Rajchandra revisited the prestigious Dolby theatre here as characters in a riveting...

​BY DEVIKA C. MEHTA
ARTESIA, CA - Tragedies are real, memories are painful and voices incoherent when the loss of refugees, their household and partition flashbacks come to mind. The ordeal has been a part of daily life not just for Indians, but for people of many other regions across the world, who together joined hands recently to ease the suffering...

SANTA CLARA, CA -India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta, who served a two-year prison-term on insider trading charges, has admitted that he made “errors and misjudgements” and apologised for letting his friends and fellow IIT associates down. In one of his first public comments on his insider trading conviction after completing his prison term in March last year, Gupta told an IIT alumni meet here,he regrets that five years of his life...

METUCHEN, NJ: Over 130 people registered for the Bay Area regional of the MoneyGram Cricket Bee held at Chabot College on July 9. The top two winners of the first regional, answered trivia questions on Cricket to solidify their position at the finals. Nithin Valentine of Santa Clara, CA was declared second runner up, Keshava Nuggehalli of Cupertino, CA was first runner up and the Regional champion was Adil Khwaja of Santa Clara, CA.