Kashmir’s Crisis
With Ishani Chowdhury Upon learning of the September 11 attack upon America, India’s Prime Minister, Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, said, […]
Initiating a New Priesthood
By Vrindavanam S. Gopalakrishnan For the first time in the history of Kerala, 57 nonbrahmin men and boys were ordained
The Tale of Tattoos
By Mark Hawthorne While tattoos among sailors and motorcycle clubs might seem the most obvious to someone living in the
Spreading Joy through Dance
On October 23, 2000 at the famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, New York, Sharanya Mukhopadhyay won the Princess
Blessed Rice
Deep down beneath the granite mountains of Colorado, where you might expect to find a secret US Defense Department stockpile
Our Tour of a Lifetime
By Kailash Dakshinamurthi Pilgrimage. I’ve always begun one with spiritual preparation and an understanding of what I expect to experience.
How the Mela Measured Up
How shall we summarize the mela? like the bottom line of an accounting sheet, numbers get right to the point.
Kumbha Mela 2001
Seventy million Hindus from around the world–the largest human gathering in history–worshiped at the confluence of the rivers Ganga and
Swami Agnivesh
Swami Agnivesh became a successful professor of business and law in his early twenties, despite being born into poverty. At
Dayananda’s Arya Samaj
Swami Dayananda Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj in 1875 as a social/political reform movement within Hinduism. He sought to reestablish