God & Gamble
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Las Vegas – you name it and most of us visualize a gambling destination with large hotels and numerous casinos. Many even term it as an entertainment paradise right in the middle of a desert. But what a city – with an estimated 169,100 hotel rooms spread across 360 hotels it has largest room inventory than any other city in the world. The figures are mind boggling – The Venetian and The Palazzo combined have 7,117 rooms while MGM Grand & Signature has 6,772, The Wynn & Encore has 4,748 rooms. Apart from gambling Las Vegas is the venue for many events including the largest Consumer Electronics Show in the world – CES, which I have been fortunate to attend for 10 consecutive years.
But when one of my journalist friend asked – Is there a temple in the sincity? I was flabbergasted. Having been there several times never thought about it. So this time when I reached Las Vegas, checked on if there’s a temple I was informed there’s one temple as well as a Gurudwara.
I called up Radha Chanderraj, Chairman of the Board, Hindu Temple of Las Vegas who was kind to invite me for a visit to the temple. Co-ordinating with her and Neeru Piplani, President of Executive Committee, who picked me up from the hotel on my last day in Las Vegas.
After a pleasant drive we reached the temple. I was pleasantly surprised by serene settings. Radha Chanderraj as well as Pandit Brijesh Kumar Raval were there.
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