Retailoring Tradition
By Rajiv Malik While most of the nation still gropes for some thread of national identity, the majority of middle […]
Narmada Floods Begin
Best-selling Indian authoress Arundhati Roy is leading new protests against daming the Narmada River. In a recent six-day “Rally for
Divine Life Society’s Rising Star
By Archana Dongre I will trade you all my sadhus for that one,” proclaimed a prominent sadhu visiting the Divine
Hail Hindu Heroes!
Beginning two centuries ago, there arose throughout India a retinue of talented, high-souled and dedicated men and women who were
Reviving Taoism
By Mark Hawthorne An elderly monk, dressed in the traditional blue robe and jade-studded black cap of his Taoist sect,
Puja’s Passion
Stephen P. Huyler began as an outsider. “I prided myself on my objectivity,” he says in his preface to Meeting
A Life Changing Puja
By Stephen Huyler I had been to Padmapoda, a village in eastern India, a number of times previously to visit
India’s New Rulers
By Rajiv Malik India’s ruling party for the last year, the BJP, is the most prominent member of the Sangh
In The RSS Ranks
By Rajiv Malik I reached Sewa Dham around six-thirty in the morning to be greeted by the breathtaking scene of
Daughters at Risk
Madhu Kishwar, editor of Manushi magazine and a renowned champion of the oppressed in India, offers her analysis of domestic