Hindu Woman Priest In Obama's Advisory Council

August 13, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/indians-abroad/Hindu-woman-priest-in-Obamas-advisory-council/articleshow/4891333.cms

Appointed by US President Barack Obama as a member of a faith-based advisory council of the White House, Anju Bhargava, a banker and a Hindu priest, hopes to remove the ignorance about Hinduism and spread the "real meaning" of the rituals associated with the religion.

42-year-old Anju Bhargava, president of the Asian Indian Women in America (AIWA), is the second Indian American appointed to the council which is part of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and includes religious, secular leaders and scholars from different backgrounds as its members.