India’s Savior of Sacred Plants
“Preservation through documentation and education.” This is the modus operandi of Dr. S.K. Jain, the retired yet tireless defender of […]
Passionate Pictures
As vast as its rolling highland plateaus are the mountains of books available on Tibet, and their topics and viewpoints
Aahh, That’s the Spot!
By Hema Shukla, Associated Press Under the shade of a mango grove in eastern India, four men leisurely haggle over
World’s Most Effective Enviromental Attorney
New Delhi attorney M.C. Mehta has successfully argued before India’ Supreme Court that pollution as a hazard to life is
The Spoiling of the Ganges
Our consciousness has gone in-to a slumber. Our sensitivity has slipped into a strange coma,” laments activist Rakesh Kumar Jaiswal
Malaysia’s Everest Quest
Interviews by RAMESH SIVANATHAN and RAJAKUMAR M ANICKAM, Malaysia Thank God! Thank God!’ was the first thing I said when
Kerala Siva Temples
By VRINDAVANAM S. GOPALAKRISHNAN Two thousand and more timber temples dot Kerala’s verdant landscape. Devotee’s devotion have created them in
India – Once Plentiful
Most of us college-educated Indians were taught that inefficient technologies and low productivities pervaded through long ages in practically all
Multi-Tailed Comet Visits
Comets through the ages have always brought with them a sense of mystery, foreboding awe and sometimes downright terror. Can
Sky’s Not the Limit
By LAVINA MELWANI, NEW YORK Who would have thought that a young Indian girl with her feet firmly on the