September, 1998
Digital Dharma
VEGETARIANS Don't Have A Cow Need we add more than Saint Tiruvalluvar's provocation in his Tirukural 2,000 yea…
Topic
September, 1998
17 articles
September, 1998
Diaspora
CULTURE A New Sparkle In Her Twirl In 1994 Aditi Hanumante completed six years of learning bharata natyam in New [&helli…
Publisher's Editorials
A River of Devotion, A Flood of Spirituality
BY SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI K–A BIG K–IS FOR KUMBHA MELA, the largest gathering of humans on Earth…
September, 1998
Letters
CONTENDING TEXTS I read with interest your article on “Better Discipline” [child rearing, July ’98]. I…
Hindu Festivals
Kumbha Mela 1998
By M.P. MOHANTY These pilgrims had come from all over India; some of them had been months on the way, […]
September, 1998
Quotes & Quips
"PILGRIMS PLODDED FOR MONTHS IN HEAT TO GET HERE, WORN, POOR AND HUNGRY, BUT SUSTAINED BY UNWAVERING FAITH." A…
Opinion
Finding Peace In Mother Ganga’s Lap
BY BHAGAWATI I sit in silent joy, the cooling Ganga rushing across my toes. A young local ashram child whom […]
Hindu Festivals
Holy Procession
By Nikki Lastreto First in procession on Maha Sivaratri, March 25, came the Naga sadhus of the Juna Akhara, reputed [&he…
Hindu Festivals
Holy Ones
There was no proper map of the sadhu camps available to us, so in the 42¡ celsius (108¡ F) heat, […]
Hindu Festivals
Deadly Melee of Sadhus Mars Mela
The official report is that a hundred holy men were injured but none killed in the clash between two monastic […]
Philosophy & Scripture
Kumbha Mela
With Jono Lineen The tens of millions of Hindus who came to the Kumbha Mela at Haridwar this year were […]
Hindu Festivals
Coping With Crowds
By PRABHA PRABHAKAR BHARDWAJ Senior Indian administration service official J.P. Sharma smiled contentedly as he detailed…
Health & Ayurveda
Cool, Windy, Dry-How to Acclimate
BY DEVANANDA TANDAVAN The months of October, November and December constitute in the northern hemisphere the fall, autum…
Hindu Festivals
Meet Our Mela Corps
(Please see hard copy for all photographs) The creation of this special issue required a rare and eclectic collaboration…
September, 1998
Briefly…
WESTERN MEDIA tended to be less interested in the Kumbha Mela than other religious celebrations at the same time, despit…
September, 1998
Evolutions
PASSED ON:Bir Narayan Chaudhury of eastern Nepal, on April 20, reputedly the oldest man in the world at 141. He [&hellip…
Philosophy & Scripture
One Pilgrim’s Story
Is it possible to film the Kumbha Mela in all its complex, wild and unruly grandeur? Vancouver director Alan Morinis [&h…