Reaching Out
By LILADHAR J. BHARADIA, KENYA With garlands in hand, Hindus and non-Hindus, VIPs and well-wishers gathered on January 10, 1997 […]
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
This Suicide Got No One to Heaven
BY SWAMI BRAHMAVIDYANANDA SARASWATI For the media to associate the lunacy of Heaven’s Gate suicides with Eastern beliefs is the
Dharma’s Puzzle Pioneer
If you find it difficult to solve the special crossword puzzle on the right, (please see hard copy) consider yourself
Against All Odds
By ANIL MAHABIR, TRINIDAD Sewdass Sadhu was born to poverty-stricken parents in India on January 1, 1903. Yet he was
Love Letter From God
BY LAVINA MELWANI, NEW YORK The year was 1925 and Pandurang Shastri Athavale was all of five years old. Wrapping
Nepal’s Virgin Goddesses
The ancient practice of Kumari worship is vigorously alive today, deep in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley. A young virgin girl, Kumari,
Playing God?
In July 1996 a Blackface ewe gave birth to lamb 6LL3, an outwardly normal baby sheep, at the Roslin Institute’s
Sotheby’s Illicit India Artifacts
Television audiences in the UK and the USA watched in amazement as Roeland Kollewijn of the Sotheby’s auction house casually
Keep Science at Peace with Nature
By Mata Amritanandamayi The idea of cloning, though implemented only recently through modern science, was in the minds of the