Diaspora
TRINIDAD/INDIA Hindu Leader’s Indian Roots Trinidad’s Prime Minister, Basdeo Panday, became one of only four Hindu heads of state in […]
Letters
BEASTLY PAGEANT? These men and women activists (“ban-galore Battlefield,” cover story, March ’97) should turn their attention and campaign against
What’s So Funny About Hinduism
By the Editor Ah, religion, that sober, somber, somniferous science, so soulful and oh-so-solemn. Perhaps. But only one whose funny
Good Money, Bad Money
BY SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI My satguru, the venerable Sage Yogaswami, discriminated between good money and bad money and taught us
American Mantras
The headline in a recent Macweek magazine, “Netscape’s Good Karma,” is typical of a growing trend of corporate America to
Sacred Pilgrimage
Five duties, called pancha kriya, form the traditional minimal practices expected of every Hindu: upasana (worship); utsava (holy days); dharma
India – Once Plentiful
Most of us college-educated Indians were taught that inefficient technologies and low productivities pervaded through long ages in practically all
Court OK’s Takeover
A January decision by India’s Supreme Court validated the 1988 government takeover of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in
A Master’s in Rhythm
By RADHIKA SRINIVASAN, New Jersey Few percussionists venture from the orchestra into the limelight, and fewer stay for long. But
No Calypso for Hindu Kids
Trinidad Hindus blasted a government minister’s proposal to make calypso–the native folk music–a compulsory subject in the Caribbean nation’s primary