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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

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

Swami, Bill Clinton Has a Question

BY THE EDITOR Questions from the White House are infrequent enough, even when indirect, that the Hinduism Today staff was

The Caning Backlash

In 18th-century America and most other countries, the master of the house could freely beat his wife, his child, his

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