On Thursday 6 April 2006, over 400 devotees attended the birthday celebrations of Bhagwan Swaminarayan and Bhagwan Ram at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir. The evening celebration assembly featured story presentations by balaks and speeches and bhajans by yuvaks and elder devotees. The celebrations included the Janmotsav arti at the time of Bhagwan Swaminarayan's birth.The Two-Way

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Tue August 6, 2013

New Magazine Takes A Grown-Up Look At Adoption

The new online magazine Gazillion Voices was begun in the hopes of shaping a new national conversation on adoption, the website says.

Gazillion Voices

The complex and interconnected topics of adoption, race, and culture will form the backbone of a new online magazine that is starting this week. Gazillion Voices was begun with those goals in mind, says Kevin Vollmers, who created the magazine as an extension of his blog, Land of Gazillion Adoptees.

Part of Gazillion Voices' mission, as Vollmers tells Laura Yuen of Minnesota Public Radio, is to tell the stories of adult adoptees.

"That's one of the biggest things about adoption that people forget to think about," says Vollmers, who lives in Minneapolis. "We actually grow up