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Chhath Pooja Celebrated In U.S.
Washington: Braving subzero temperatures, scores of Indian Americans, some even driving a few hundred miles, gathered on the banks of the historic Potomac river in the suburb of the U.S. capital over the weekend to celebrate the ancient Hindu festival of Chhath.
Into its fifth year, the celebration of Chhath, which was initially started by a software engineer from Patna, the annual Hindu festival dedicated to worshipping the sun has now started attracting large numbers of the Indian American community and also from the small Nepali American community.
"It has been an overwhelming response and the number of people coming to watch us performing Chhath Pooja has been increasing every passing year," Kripa Shankar Singh, who has been singlehandedly organising the annual event for the past few years, told PTI.
A few of the Indian Americans, he said, drove from as far as Atlanta in Georgia, adding that there is demand from the community members to make it a larger event from next year.
Singh's wife Anita Singh was joined by Manisha Singh, a Nepali-American, in performing the pooja on the bank of the Potomac river on Friday evening and early Saturday morning when the weather was below freezing.
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Source: PTI
