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A Brief History of Hindu Sabha The year was 1975 when five visionary Hindus (also Founding Members) had a mission of preserving, protecting and promoting our Hindu Dharma, Sabhyata (civilization) and Sanskriti (culture) for many generations to come. They decided to register a charitable organization under the Name of Hindu Sabha.
From a humble beginning of organizing religious discourses, Poojas, Havans and Hindu festivals at people’s apartments and homes; and city centre library rooms, a farm property was purchased on highway # 10, near Derry Road in Brampton in 1978. Subsequent to this, with your support and donations Hindu Sabha acquired 25 acre land in Brampton on The Gore Road.
Over the years, the Hindu population of Canada started to grow rapidly. The devotees and volunteers at the time started soliciting funds to build a new temple on the newly acquired land. With donations from devotees and bank financing, the project to build this temple was embarked in 1992.
The year 1994 gave us much needed funds as we had to vacate our farm house on Highway 10 due to Highway 407 construction and the property was sold to the province of Ontario. We celebrated the opening of our new temple on 9225 The Gore Road, Brampton in 1994 with the Praan Prathista of Maa Jagdamba.
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Opinion At 99, Krishen Khanna still captures and illuminates the human condition
Modernist Krishen Khanna’s foray into the mainstream art circuit was serendipitous. His wife was aboard a ship when she came across an acquaintance who knew the artist S B Palsikar. She wrote him a letter requesting him to see Khanna’s work. Soon, Palsikar arrived at his studio. Impressed by what he saw, he carried back a small canvas depicting a group of people reading the newspaper after Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. News of Gandhiji’s Death, the 1948 canvas, was featured at Bombay Art Society’s Golden Jubilee Exhibition in 1949 alongside works by the influential members of the Progressive Artists’ Group (PAG) that included, among others, M F Husain, S H Raza, F N Souza and K H Ara. Months later, Khanna was inducted into the art collective, forging enduring friendships and embracing their search for a distinct artistic vocabulary for independent India, distinct from the revivalist nationalism of the Bengal School and the colonial academic tradition.
As he turned 99 this month, the sole surviving member of the PAG, Khanna continues to explore new avenues. One of India’s most versatile modernists, his expressionist brushstrokes have captured the changing times — from the harrowing re