IANR 2535 083025 Line Up

4-6pm INTERVIEWS (Gautam Sinha guest hosts for Sanchali)

Here’s the guest line-up for Sat, August 30, 2025 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio, a production of Indo American News (www.IndoAmerican-News.com). Weare on 98.7 FM and you can also listen on the masalaradio app.

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4:20 pm A truly remarkable event will be taking place this weekend at the ISKCON temple on Ella Blvd. It is  theannual Kirtan Fest dedicated to bringing together people from all walks of life to experience the transformative power of kirtan (congregational chanting). The centerpiece of Kirtan Fest is the Pushpa Abhishek, a flower festival in which more than 30,000 Ecuadorian roses — the largest and most vibrant in the world — will transform the space into a sea of petals, color, and joy. Devotee Ananjay Raju joins us today to tell us more about the festival.

4:50 pm The Jaipur Literature Festival will return to Houston next weekend, September 5 through 7 and will be held at four venues across the city, featuring many literary figures - like Houstonian Chitra Divakaruni, Sunanada Vashisht, film maker Shekhar Kapur, Amish, Ragini Tharoor Srivasan, Pria Ahmed, Sanjay Devarajan and many others - and panel discussions. Writer and poet Chitra Divakaruni will callin to talk about the significance of the Festival which will conclude on Sunday, September 7.

5:20 pm Dr. Sanjay Mehta has been treating cancers of the prostate, breast, lung, brain, GI tract with focused radiation beams with minimal side effects, because it avoids collateral damage to other nearby organs. His practice has adopted the European techniques of using very low dose radiationto treat arthritis and tendonitis with excellent results in only 6 painless treatments. He joins us today – along with his dad Dr Chandra Mehta who has benefitted from this treatment - to tell us more about this promising treatment.

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