India Maps
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The Magazine
July/August/September, 2002
30 articles in this issue
The Art of Kenro Izu
By Lavina Melwani There is an eerie stillness to the images, a strongly felt presence of a higher power. Be […]
In Defense of Astrology
By Gayatri Devi Vasudev When the University Grants Commission of India brought Vedic astrology into the teaching curricu…
THE TRAVELS OF TWAIN
Mark Twain said, “I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead [&he…
Something’s Wrong At Our Temples
By Viswanath P. Kurup Temples are the abodes of God, filled with sanctity and peace. The major temples of India [&hellip…
Every Little Bit Counts
By Vatsala Sperling Balasubramaniyam’s weird habit was incurable. When anyone looked at him for even a moment, he …
Lead: The Hidden Poison
By Choodie Shivaram What kind of mother earth are we going to leave behind for future generations? I have heard [&hellip…
Kuchipudi’s Houston Hero
By Kalyani Giri Bharath Soumitri Guntupali, 17, is the first male dancer to graduate from the Anjali Center for Performi…
Holi’s Harmful Chemicals
By Tirtho Banerjee The boisterous Holi revelers have a ready excuse, mano holi hai hai, “Don’t take offense,…
Learning to Love Dance
By Deepa Seetharaman One Sunday, 12 years ago, right after we went to the temple, my mother took me to […]
How the Joint Family Shaped My Life
By Captain M.S. Srikantaiah I am in my early eighties now. when I look around me, I feel sad for […]
Publisher's Editorials
Nine Key Qualities to Cultivate in Children
Every father and mother is indeed a guru in fact, an individual’s first guru, teaching by example, explanation, gi…
DIASPORA
MALAYSIA Thai Pusam in Grand Style A seven-mile procession on January 27, 2002, from downtown Kuala Lumpur to the famed …
Confronting Violence
By Lakshmy Parameswaran As a family violence counselor, I hear about tragedies and devastation as part of my job. These …
To Know the Unknowable
If a man knows the self as "I am this," then desiring what and for whose sake will he suffer […]
QUOTES & QUIPS
"Just as a man will use a staff to climb a mountain, so should virtue be used in life." Yogaswami […]
Nine Key Qualities to Cultivate in Children
Every father and mother is indeed a guru in fact, an individual's first guru, teaching by example, explanation, giv…
Letters to the Editor 7-2002
Be Proud, Informed Americans I always enjoy your magazine. the articles on parenting, vegetarianism, yoga, allied tradit…
Sacrifice for Sabari
Some say the pilgrimage to Sabarimala, which is performed by millions every year in the southern state of Kerala from [&…
Murugan and Ganesha Love Paris
By Gilles Flament It is Ganesha’s birthday, but this is Paris, so the elephant-faced Deity of Dharma is delighted …
Revenge Is a Terrible Negative Force
By Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami If we act wrongly toward others, people will act wrongly toward us. Then, if we are […
The Karma of Revenge
This article is the first of five in this issue discussing the recent riots in India. They include a commentary [&hellip…
Morari Bapu Speaks Out On the Gujarat Riots
Morari Bapu is one of the most popular and respected exponents of the Ramayana through the dramatic form of presentation…
Jai Shri Ram!
Ramanand Sagar’s TV epic, the Ramayana, brought the whole of India to a halt week after week in the mid-1980s. [&h…
Medical Ethics
Hindu medicine, known as ayurveda or the “science of life,” has a highly developed system of practical ethic…
An Inventor For the People
By Tirtho Banerjee Anil Rajvanshi goes out of his way to make out-of-the-ordinary things. He was the first to use [&hell…
Smoking Yogis, Beware!
By Dr. Swami Gitananda When I was just a school boy, cigarettes were referred to as “coffin nails.” Every pu…
The Wrong Way
By Arun Gandhi In our obscurantist zeal we focus on a crisis with-out going into the cause and inevitably reach [&hellip…
Godhra in Perspective
By Swami Veda Bharati Any individual experience is a ripple in the stream of karma; any event is a wave […]
Earth’s Rarest Tree
By Tirtho Banerjee Nestled in the serene woods of Barolia village near Ramnagar in the Barabanki district of Uttar Prade…