Ram, Ram, Sita-Ram!
By Vatsala Sperling I once asked Jagadguru Jayendra Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, how there could be hundreds and […]
By Vatsala Sperling I once asked Jagadguru Jayendra Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, how there could be hundreds and […]
By Kailash Dakshinamurthi Pilgrimage. I’ve always begun one with spiritual preparation and an understanding of what I expect to experience.
How shall we summarize the mela? like the bottom line of an accounting sheet, numbers get right to the point.
Seventy million Hindus from around the world–the largest human gathering in history–worshiped at the confluence of the rivers Ganga and
By Krishan Dutt In a quiet tree-lined street in the West London suburb of Hounslow, as heavy vehicular traffic thunders
By Vrindavanam S. Gopalakrishnan The day at Kerala’s temples used to begin with the sweet sound of the conch, but
By Vrindavanam S. Gopalakrishnan Keralite Hindus are coming to a renewed appreciation of traditions once branded as primitive, obsolete and
By Choodie Shivaram I visit Melkote a few times every year, as Yoga Narasimha is our family Deity. Yet, we
It’s cold, really cold–that’s an equatorial-dwelling Sri Lankan Tamil’s first and everlasting impression of Edmonton, Albert, Canada. D. Selvarajah remembers
By Rajeswari Nagalingam It was late evening, Saturday, April 10, 1999, when I.S.V. Arunachala Mooppanar (lovingly referred to as Mooppanar