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 […]
A Colorfully Crafted Fair
By SHIKHA MALAVIYA, MINNESOTA As our taxi rushes through the dusty streets of Delhi, my heart goes pitter patter. We
India – Once Plentiful
Most of us college-educated Indians were taught that inefficient technologies and low productivities pervaded through long ages in practically all
Court OK’s Takeover
A January decision by India’s Supreme Court validated the 1988 government takeover of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in
Sacred Psychiatry
By VRINDAVANAM S. GOPAIAKRISHNAN My wife developed mental problems when she was pregnant in 1965. All types of treatment, from
Mountainous Sage
By ANANDHI RAMACHANDRAN, CHENNAI Once as a child I asked my father “Are there rishis like Agastya, Vishwamitra and Vashishta
Contested Contest
By CHOODIE SHIVARAM, BANGALORE Miss world ’96 beauty pageant is now over. The world beauty was crowned on November 23
When not in Rome . . .
By VRINDAVANAM S. GOPALAKRISHNAN Peter Julia came to India from Spain in 1948 as a 23-year-old Jesuit priest. Today, at
Banaras: Eclipsed by a camera
By LAVINA MELWANI, NEW YORK A hundred chattering temple monkeys wake up New York photographer Marcus Leatherdale from sleep before
Yoga for India’s Army
By DIPANKAR DAS, NEW DELHI What do you think is the latest addition to the Indian armed forces’ arsenal? Early