Hindu Council of NZ to celebrate Raksha Bandhan Festival in Auckland Thursday, July 8, 2021 Sandeep Singh
Hindu Council of New Zealand will be celebrating the Raksha Bandhan Festival – Universal Fellowship and Veneration of Womanhood on Sunday, August 22 in Auckland.
This year the Hindu Council of New Zealand is also celebrating its silver jubilee, and to mark the occasion it is repeating some selected, unique programs from the previous years through its various Service Divisions.
Speaking to the Indian Weekender, Vinod Kumar President of Hindu Council of NZ said, “Raksha Bandhan festival is open to all, and it aims to bring community leaders and dance groups from several ethnic communities (more than 50 groups) together to celebrate this unique festival that promotes universal fellowship and veneration of womanhood.”
Organised annually over two weeks the Health for Humanity Yogathon which started in 2011 has already competed 10 years of promoting Yoga on a mass scale in New Zealand Yoga with roots in ancient Hindu philosophy is slowly and steadily growing in New Z
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Coming together of Hindu and Maori communities at Te Papaiouru Marae, Rotorua, at an earlier session of the Hindu Council of New Zealand. On the left is council secretary Dr Guna Magesan. Magesan said in the past, since the early 2000s, the marae stays had been organised by the council, but this year it was being co-ordinated by the youth wing. If you have never stayed at a marae, or would like to come and stay again, now is the perfect time, he said. Magesan said all accommodation, food, and resources needed for the workshops would be included in the $20 fee per person.