Italy’s Hindu Controversy
We have to overcome a misunderstanding asserted by Italian scholars that one has to be born in India to be […]
Temple Ablaze
While pilgrimaging to the temples of South India, Hinduism Today Deputy Managing Editor, Yogi Kashinatha, was present June 7, 1997,
We Play to Entertain the Gods – And the People
Performer, teacher, scholar and composer for both gamelan orchestra and dance, I Wayan Sinti has won abundant awards in Bali’s
Hunting for God
By Lavina Melwani Where would you find Siva lost in samadhi, Krishna playing His flute and Ganesha feasting on sweets?
Dispense with that Awful Word
BY DR ANANTANAND RAMBACHAN Among the many problems faced by Hindus is finding appropriate English terminology for Sanskrit terms. This
Inauspicious or Not?
BY THE EDITOR Culturally clueless as you catch a flight to Calcutta for your first visit to India? Don’t despair.
Cues and Clues
Nearly every indigenous people on Earth is reevaluating, rediscovering and reappreciating its ancient ways, the traditions of the forefathers. Tradition
Brick, Mortar Not Enough
By GOWRI SHANKER, CHENNAI Samy, as Tiru Tiruvanmiyur Ramasamy Chinnathamby is popularly known, is exceptional. How else would you describe
Malaysia’s Everest Quest
Interviews by RAMESH SIVANATHAN and RAJAKUMAR M ANICKAM, Malaysia Thank God! Thank God!’ was the first thing I said when
The Twist of Fate
When Prakash Mody pulled his February 24th issue of Time magazine out of the mailbox, he felt his heart sink.