World’s Most Effective Enviromental Attorney
New Delhi attorney M.C. Mehta has successfully argued before India’ Supreme Court that pollution as a hazard to life is […]
The Spoiling of the Ganges
Our consciousness has gone in-to a slumber. Our sensitivity has slipped into a strange coma,” laments activist Rakesh Kumar Jaiswal
Italy’s Hindu Controversy
We have to overcome a misunderstanding asserted by Italian scholars that one has to be born in India to be
Temple Ablaze
While pilgrimaging to the temples of South India, Hinduism Today Deputy Managing Editor, Yogi Kashinatha, was present June 7, 1997,
Pious Precussionists
The complex rhythmic orchestral music of Bali rivals the best of classical traditions East or West. Played jn temples for
We Play to Entertain the Gods – And the People
Performer, teacher, scholar and composer for both gamelan orchestra and dance, I Wayan Sinti has won abundant awards in Bali’s
Hunting for God
By Lavina Melwani Where would you find Siva lost in samadhi, Krishna playing His flute and Ganesha feasting on sweets?
Dispense with that Awful Word
BY DR ANANTANAND RAMBACHAN Among the many problems faced by Hindus is finding appropriate English terminology for Sanskrit terms. This
Inauspicious or Not?
BY THE EDITOR Culturally clueless as you catch a flight to Calcutta for your first visit to India? Don’t despair.
Cues and Clues
Nearly every indigenous people on Earth is reevaluating, rediscovering and reappreciating its ancient ways, the traditions of the forefathers. Tradition