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www.priyakrishna.me. Priya Krishna is an Indian-American food journalist and YouTube personality. She is a food reporter for The New York Times and has previously contributed to The New Yorker, Eater, and TASTE (as a columnist).[1][2][3] She is also the author of multiple cookbooks, including Indian-ish, a cookbook she wrote with her mother. [4]
Hinduism is the fourth-largest religion in the United States, comprising 1% of the population, the same as Buddhism and Islam. [1] The majority of American Hindus are immigrants, mainly from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and the Caribbean, with a minority from Bhutan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Canada, Africa, Europe, Oceania, and other ...
Vidya Iyer (born September 26, 1990), better known by her stage name Vidya Vox, is an American YouTuber and singer. [2] She was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and immigrated with her family to the United States at the age of eight.
The BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham is a Hindu mandir (temple) built by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha in Robbinsville, New Jersey, within Mercer County.It is the largest Hindu mandir in the United States and the third-largest in the world, the largest outside of Asia, and the largest Hindu mandir built in modern times, [1] rising 213 ft (65 m) above ground.
Kadavul Temple was established by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, a Hindu monk who was born in the United States. He was a former ballet dancer before being initiated into Shaivism by Guru Yogaswami in Sri Lanka. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami established the temple on Kauai in 1973 after he was instructed by Guru Yogaswami to build a "bridge ...
Some religious studies scholars have further said that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is one of a number of Indian gurus who brought neo-Hindu adaptations of Vedantic Hinduism to the west. [222] [223] [224] Author Meera Nanda calls neo-Hinduism "the brand of Hinduism that is taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Deepak Chopra, and their clones". [225] J. R.
Vinay Lal is an Indian historian. He is a professor of history and Asian American studies at UCLA.He writes widely on the history and culture of colonial and modern India, popular and public culture in India, cinema, historiography, the politics of world history, the Indian diaspora, global politics, contemporary American politics, the life and thought of Mohandas Gandhi, Hinduism, and the ...
The history of Hinduism covers a wide variety of related religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent. [ 1 ] It overlaps or coincides with the development of religion in the Indian subcontinent since the Iron Age, with some of its traditions tracing back to prehistoric religions such as those of the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilisation.