Hindu Worship Society Introduces Councils for Children, Youth

By nisha Bhatia

houston: Hindu Worship Society Temple, Houston’s oldest Hindu Temple is doing some great things! If you haven’t been recently, you have been missing out on quite a bit. In 2022, Hindu Worship Society inaugurated the Shiv Temple and Nav Grah. The beautiful addition to the temple is in dedication to Mr. Rajinder Soni, long-time devotee and Temple trustee.

While we are only in April of 2023, the Temple has already hosted Lohri Celebration, Shiv Ratri, Mata Chowki and a Ram Charit Manas Paath. We have many more exciting events coming up this year and more things to look forward to.

Most recently, Hindu Worship Society brought back the HWS Youth Council and added a HWS Children’s Council. The HWS Children’s Council will focus on teaching children ages 5 – 12 about Hinduism, Indian Culture and get them involved in temple activities. Volunteer Teachers will meet with the kids every other Sunday and provide a variety of activities and share cultural knowledge. The HWS Youth Council for teenagers and young adults will focus on helping our younger generation grow with topics such as how to do your taxes, getting volunteer hours, how to apply to college and for scholarships and so much more.

The HWS Youth Council took on their first big activity by volunteering at the Houston Food Bank. The 25 volunteers, ages 6 and up, helped pack about 10,000 meals (12,000 lbs of food) in about 3 hours! The meals packaged will go out to senior citizens around Houston under a government sponsored initiative. The best part, everyone had a great time and bonded wonderfully with each other while doing so much good for our community!

HWS would like to recognize and thank temple devotees Rohit Khera, Jaspal Narang and Ashima Patel for organizing this event and leading the effort with the next generation!

If you would like to join the HWS Children’s Council or the HWS Youth Council, please drop an email to Ashima Patel at hws. temple@gmail.com.

To know what is going on at Hindu Worship Society, join the Temple Facebook page @hwstemple, or join the Temple WhatsApp Group by taking a WhatsApp picture of the QR Code to the right.

‘Gumraah’: Aditya Roy Kapoor is a Drag

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Why are Hindi films choosing to remake such recent films, especially when the original could just as easily be available on a streaming platform?

In the new ‘Gumraah’, the brutal murder of a young man is a puzzle for the cops assigned to the case. Inspector Shivani (Mrunal Thakur) is the kind of brisk no-nonsense policewoman who barks orders at her underlings, and doesn’t suffer fools gladly, even if it is her senior (Ronit Roy). Who can the killer be? Is it the clean-cut Arjun or the lowlife Ronnie, both played by Aditya Roy Kapur in a double role.

Other questions arise. Why would the perpetrator wear a blinding yellow raincoat, a colour that can be seen a mile afar? How does he escape without said item of clothing not being splashed in blood? Why do policewomen in Bollywood flicks sport the kind of ponytail which can only be created with such finesse by a hair-dresser? Why is ‘Chaddhi’ such a popu- lar name for the hero’s BFF?

Actually, you know what, chuck it. Figuring those answers isn’t worth my time. Nor was the film.

Cast: Aditya Roy Kapur, Mrunal Thakur, Ronit Roy, Deepak Kalra, Vedika Pinto

Director: Vardhan Ketkar

Rating: 1.5 stars

Rating: 1.5 stars -- Indian Express

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Lunch Buffett 11-3 pm, Daily haven’t seen the original, so I can’t compare the two, but ‘Gumraah’ is nothing but a drag.

The chief question that comes to mind while watching ‘Gumraah’, a remake of the Tamil-language ‘Thadam’ (2019), is this: why are Hindi films choosing to remake such recent films, especially when the original could just as easily be available on a streaming platform?

It’s almost like there are no original ideas left in Bollywood, given that last week’s ‘Bholaa’ was also a remake of the 2019 ‘Kaithi’, also in Tamil.

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Nothing either of the suspects do — Arjun who romances his perky colleague (Vedika Pinto), nor Ronnie who hangs out with his pal (Deepak Kalra) — evoke the slightest bit of interest. The key conflict arises from the fact that both men are dead ringers for each other, so which of the two was it who raised the sharp object and stabbed his victim multiple times?

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