AROUND TOWN NEWS
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February 2009 -
A diverse group of vipassana meditators stuck it out for ten days of silence and meditation, and reported enthusiastic results
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February 2009 -
More than 800 young volunteers poured into Atlanta, GA, from across North America on January 8 for the fifth national youth leadership seminar organized by the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Lilburn.
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February 2009 -
With 179 dead in November’s horrific terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the Indian diaspora here in Atlanta were not immune from personal tragedy.
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February 2009 -
The Navodaya 2009 New Year festival at the Hindu Temple of Atlanta in Riverdale, Georgia, drew more than 6,000 devotees and visitors from all over the Southeast on Thursday, January 1.
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January 2009 -
A festive eleven-day inauguration ceremony was marked by religious ceremonies and discourses, a grand shobha yatra (a procession of floats), cultural shows, dignitaries, and visitors from all across the U.S. and overseas.
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January 2009 -
An overwhelming sadness crept over the hall at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Lilburn as hundreds of Indian-Americans paid tribute to the innocent lives that were lost during the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November.
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January 2009 -
Sanjiv Arora, India’s new Consul General in Houston, was in Atlanta on Saturday, December 13, to attend an informal reception hosted for him.
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January 2009 -
The Indian community of metropolitan Atlanta hosted a luncheon reception Sunday, Dec. 14, in Clarkston, Georgia, for the Bhutanese refugees who have been arriving in Atlanta in the recent months.
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January 2009 -
The rural affairs editor of The Hindu delivers a highly informative and impassioned talk about the alarming inequities in India, and about the plight of Indian farmers who are committing suicide by the hundreds.
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November 2008 -
The Atlanta Sikh community honored General Joginder Jaswant Singh, the former Chief of Indian Army Staff who visited the city with his wife Anupama Singh on Tuesday, October 7th recently.
