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Hindu spiritual & service fair to be held in Goregaon

This is the first time the HSSF is being held in Mumbai. For the past eight years, it was hosted in Chennai, Jaipur and Bengaluru, with over a hundred NGOs participating each year.

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(From left) Chairperson of the organising committee Dr Alka Mandke, fair’s founder and initiator S Gurumurthy and chief guest Devinandan Jindal at a press conference in Santa Cruz on Friday
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A three-day Hindu Spiritual and Service Fair (HSSF) is set to be held in Goregaon from February 12.

This is the first time the HSSF is being held in Mumbai. For the past eight years, it was hosted in Chennai, Jaipur and Bengaluru, with over a hundred NGOs participating each year. This year's fair will see temples, matts, revered saints and community-based institutions too taking part.

On Friday, the body organising the fair held a press conference in Santa Cruz. It was chaired by the fair's founder and initiator S Gurumurthty, chairperson of the organising committee Dr Alka Mandke, and chief guest Devinandan Jindal, who inaugurated the fair's logo.

Speakers at the press conference said the focus of the fair is to bridge the gap between the (Hindu) institutions, NGOs and the public. According to Gurumurthy, who is the brain behind the HSSF, the idea of hosting an exhibition such as this came to him when he was in the US and realised that "the view about Indians, especially Hindus, was that they weren't compassionate enough to be givers (philanthropes) and that whenever 'services' were involved, it was assumed they were done by Christians".

"In the Hindu culture, giving meant doing it silently. The Satya Sai Trust built water pipelines up to 7,000km and spent over Rs1,800 crore on it, but that wouldn't ever come out because it does not believe in advertising it. It was only the research that showed it and that ought to be told to people," said Gurumurthy.

"Writing a book on philanthropy or hosting a book fair wouldn't have been sufficient. Hence, we decided to build a communication model, where even though the medium is that of an exhibition, the motive is of bringing these institutions and people together and showcasing their accounts on philanthropy."

The fair will have 130 stalls given free of cost to NGOs and institutions, namely ISKCON, Jivan Vidya Mission and Art of Living. There will be competitions, seminars, workshops, cultural events and visits by eminent personalities such as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Those looking to participate can get details from the app 'Where's My Pundit'.

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