A Colorfully Crafted Fair
By SHIKHA MALAVIYA, MINNESOTA As our taxi rushes through the dusty streets of Delhi, my heart goes pitter patter. We […]
Mom, Please Come Home
Motherhood may be the most controversial career you can have these days,” opens this manual for stay-at-home moms. Staying Home
Can We Clone the Stars?
The idea of cloning poses some interesting questions regarding jyotisha. In a horoscope, the lagna (rising sign) and any planets
Boys Will Be Boys, But Not for Long
Puberty in boys proceeds about the same as in girls, except the changes are more external due to the differences
Ready for 60 More
By M. P. MOHANTY, NEW DELHI The President and Prime Minister of India headed a long list of dignitaries gathered
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