Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site csd2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!csd2!agrawal From: agrawal@csd2.UUCP (Mukul Babu Agrawal) Newsgroups: net.nlang.india Subject: Re: Saraswati Puja Message-ID: <4380001@csd2.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 11:50:00 EST Article-I.D.: csd2.4380001 Posted: Wed Jan 30 11:50:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Feb-85 12:07:12 EST References: <7840@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: New York University Lines: 41 > >Relay-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site csd2.UUCP >From: jcp@brl-tgr.ARPA (Joe Pistritto ) >Date: 29-Jan-85 23:24 EST >Date-Received: 30-Jan-85 07:42 EST >Subject: Saraswati Puja >Message-ID: <7840@brl-tgr.ARPA> >Path: csd2!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!jcp >Newsgroups: net.nlang.india >Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA >Organization: Ballistic Research Lab >Distribution: net >Lines: 11 >Xref: seismo net.nlang.india:3 > > > The local Bengali community in Baltimore is having their >annual Saraswati Puja next weekend, and usually attend these events, >although I usually don't participate in the Puja itself. Some of >my Indian friends have encouraged me to do so, (I don't have any >religious objections), but I have worried about offending the >other Hindus there. Are there any Hindus out there that would >care to comment on this? Would you be offended? Do you expect >others would be? > > Joseph C. Pistritto I do not think anybody should be minding. ( though I have no idea about how it is in USA ). I have never been to any Saraswati puja celebrations , My experiences in India are that whenever people from different religions come , we are most happy to greet them . We have in the past invited several Muslims to our Deepawali celebrations and I know a number of families both Hindu & Muslim who do the same... Mukul Agrawal agrawal@csd2.arpa cmcl!csd2!agrawal