India

I’m Taking a Break!

BY DEEPA SETHARAMAN Harvard sprawled before us. the 400-year-old ivy-covered walls revealed, the dew on the impeccably manicured lawn shimmering […]

The Lore of Kumbha Melas

BY RAJIV MALIK The Kumbha Mela is a gathering of the great monastic orders of India, known as akharas. At

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

BY RAJIV MALIK Imagine, if you will and if you can, the light of a bright noonday sun in a

Kailash Pilgrims Bless Center

BY ISANI ALAHAN The Chinese officials read our temperatures by computer as we filed through immigration at the Lhasa Airport

Hands-on Healing

BY ISANI ALAHAN AND DEVI PARAM It’s June, 10, 2003, and we have just arrived at Ayushakti, a clean, modern,

Hit Play on Ramanujan

BY LISA DROSTOVA Eight decades after his death at age 32, mathematician Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan is still swathed in mystery.

A Baffling Mind

BY IRAJA SIVADAS In the spring of 1994 I found myself in erode, Tamil Nadu, India, boarding a train with

Sweet Soul of Song

BY ANANDHI RAMACHANDRAN Subbulakshmi sang beautifully at my dance recital for graduation from Kalakshetra College of Fine Arts back in

Elephant’s Price

By Vrindavanam S. Gopalakrishnan Visitors to the famed Krishna temple at Guruvayoor in Kerala seldom skip visiting the nearby Punnathur

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