On 26th this month, a friend’s friend, who is a Sardarni married to a Hindu, called me up and said, “We have been living in Dubai for the last 2 years and returned home now. We like Hindu rituals and decided to begin this year’s poojas with Satyanarayan pooja on ...

Tomorrow, we will be watching this century’s longest total lunar eclipse. In Hinduism, an eclipse is seen in a differently than science does. It is going to occur from tomorrow night 10.44 for one hour 43 minutes. The eclipse brings with it impurity also called sutaka. Astrologers and priests say ...

Now, we will talk about the pooja method. The selected place in the pooja area (North, North-East or East) should be cleaned with cow dung and cow’s urine. Draw an ashtadala in yellow rangoli at that place. Apply sandalwood powder to each petal and turmeric and kum kum to the ...