Lokvani wishes all its readers a Happy Guru Purnima.

The word ‘Guru’ is derived from two Sanskrit words ‘Gu’ meaning ‘darkness or ignorance’ and ‘Ru’ meaning ‘removal’. Hence, Guru is believed to be the removal of darkness from our lives. This year, Guru Purnima will be celebrated on July 24, a day dedicated to teachers and mentors. [more]

More than 25 New England community leaders came together to be a part of the 3rd annual meeting of the Indo-American Leadership Forum on July 16th at Priya Restaurant, Chelmsford, MA. The Indo American Leadership Forum is a platform for community organizations to network with each other and come together for a common cause – strengthening the Indian community and its unified representation in the New England civic engagement arena. [more]

Boston-based women empowerment media platform, Women Who Win, recently launched a charity program, “The Shoe Project”, in which they provide footwear and health education to underserved global communities. Currently, India has a slum population of over 80 million people, and slum residents have to walk miles every day to find back-breaking and grueling labor. [more]

By popular demand Senthil and his troop is back on Friday, July 23rd from 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM. This troop of talented musicians which includes full range percussionists, a variety of string players as well as keyboard artists will keep you all swinging to their tunes. [more]

Chinmaya Mission Boston is celebrating Guru Purnima by performing Guru Paduka Puja and offering our salutations to the Guru Parampara. The Samoohika Paduka Puja (group Puja) will be on July 23rd at 6:00 PM. [more]

Join us for the IITAGNE Annual Family Picnic on July 24th at NARA Park, Acton, MA. [more]

LearnQuest presents two highly regarded distinguished Hindustani Classical musicians of the current times - Pt. Kushal Das - Sitarist and Pt. Kumar Bose - Tabla player on Saturday, July 24, 2021. [more]

Sangeetha Mananan cordially invites you to Annual Day 2021 with a Carnatic Music Recital by students of Sri KVS Vinay on July 25th in Acton, MA. [more]

Guru Poornima, Sai Vrat Katha, Guru Charitra Parayan, Lord Puri Jagannath Ratha Yatra and Back to School Program at NESSP. [more]

Satsang Center invites you to celebrate Guru Purnima with Bhajans on July 23rd. [more]

Join the group for an organizational meeting on July 25th to discuss and plan the International Folk Literature Festival featuring a "World under a Roof" Poetry Festival. [more]

A rally to support Indian farmers will be held on July 25th in Union Sq., Somerville, MA. [more]

You are cordially invited to attend Guru Purnima celebration this coming Sunday July 25th at 4:30pm with Sri Devadas from New York. [more]

“Community meeting” on the 25th of July AT 12 PM, at the Tewksbury United Methodist Church. We will be discussing about creating/building a Housing project/facility for the South Asian Seniors. [more]

IAGB invites all of our New England Area Choreographers, Artists and Performers to perform live at India’s 75th Independence Day Celebrations on August 15th at the Hatch Memorial Shell, along with nominations for Youth Excellence Awards. [more]

Ekal Youth Leaders are presenting workshops to learn Python and Geometry. All funds raised go to support Ekal. [more]

Vision-Aid’s Annual Event - "The Seven Selfless Sovereigns" set to dazzle audiences on Aug. 1st, 2021. [more]

​Chinmaya Mission Boston is happy to bring yet another edition of this non-residential camp for youth who are beginning high school in the fall (rising 9th graders) up until high schoolers who are beginning college in the fall (rising first-year college students) from August 16-20, 2021. [more]

Welcome Back Zindagi - A live musical extravaganza featuring popular singers of Boston on September 18th in Lexington, MA. [more]

The Lotus Festival is back in-person this year at the beautiful Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem, MA on September 18th. [more]

Concord Art presents (un)seen curated by Keith Morris Washington, an exhibition composed of sound and video installations by Rashin Fahandej, site-specific drawings by Lyssa Palu-ay, photographs by Stephen Tourlentes, and large-scale paintings by Keith Morris Washington. It will be on view through August 15, 2021. [more]

Pooja Patel of Mansfield, MA and Jay Srivastava of Glastonbury, CT were among the named 2021 class of Congressional Gold Medal Award recipients. This is not an award for past accomplishments. Instead, recipients are honored for achieving their own challenging goals after registering for the program. [more]

Sanjal Gavande was one of the key engineers who designed the New Shephard rocket that took Bezos and the crew to the edge of space aboard what is touted as the world's first unpiloted suborbital flight. [more]

In late 2020, the IRS announced that it will increase tax audits of small businesses by 50 percent in 2021. Here are several mistakes to avoid if you do get audited by Uncle Sam. [more]

If a robber robs a house under renovation and accidentally leaves his handprint on wet cement, Does that mean that the police have concrete evidence? [more]

Summer time is for Chaat! [more]

Faces carved in stone. [more]

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? Oscar Wilde. [more]