Earth’s Rarest Tree
By Tirtho Banerjee Nestled in the serene woods of Barolia village near Ramnagar in the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, […]
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
Godhra in Perspective
By Swami Veda Bharati Any individual experience is a ripple in the stream of karma; any event is a wave
THE TRAVELS OF TWAIN
Mark Twain said, “I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead
The Wrong Way
By Arun Gandhi In our obscurantist zeal we focus on a crisis with-out going into the cause and inevitably reach
In Defense of Astrology
By Gayatri Devi Vasudev When the University Grants Commission of India brought Vedic astrology into the teaching curriculum of universities
Smoking Yogis, Beware!
By Dr. Swami Gitananda When I was just a school boy, cigarettes were referred to as “coffin nails.” Every puff
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
Medical Ethics
Hindu medicine, known as ayurveda or the “science of life,” has a highly developed system of practical ethics derived from
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.