Culture & Society
Delhi Bans Beating Students
A landmark judgment handed down from the Delhi High Court recently should make Delhi school life a little less difficult…
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September/October, 2001
29 articles
Philosophy & Scripture
Pondering Pagans
By Koenraad Elst The late Ram Swarup liked to point out that other cultures had traditions similar to Hinduism before [&…
Philosophy & Scripture
Who Speaks For Hinduism?
By the Editors What would seem to be, at first glance, a relatively simple question with a quick answer: Hindus [&hellip…
Environment
‘I Love Cloth Diapers’
By Darshani Sukumaran When I had our daughter a few months ago and people found out I was using cloth […]
September/October, 2001
BOOKS
Have We Met? Reincarnation within families By Tara Katir, Kapaa, Hawaii Apart of reincarnation’s magnetism is the …
Health & Ayurveda
Ayurveda Gets a Boost
By Mamta Landerman The California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine, CAAM, brought together 300 people for a weekend of …
Culture & Society
University Hinduism
By Suchorita Rudra Only a small red dot on Mira’s forehead gave away her Hindu beliefs. Inside her one-bedroom apa…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Murugan Conference
By Rajen Manick Millions of hindus around the world regularly worship Lord Murugan, also called Skanda or Karttikeya. He…
Culture & Society
The Inner Search of Science
God made Newsweek but yoga’s on Time. In a departure from politics as usual, both magazines Time and Newsweek rece…
Culture & Society
Hindu News Service Launched
Today’s stories to a computer near you By Kalyani Giri, Houston Shortly after my first article was accepted for Hi…
September/October, 2001
Diaspora
CHINA Hindu Priest Goes to China The Shankaracharya of Kanchi Peetham in Tamil Nadu, India, received an official invitat…
Opinion
United We Stand!
By Nirmal Laungani The destruction of the Buddhist statues by the Taliban in Afghanistan came as a rude shock to [&helli…
Publisher's Editorials
Facing Life’s Tests With Wisdom
BY SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI When we are children, we run freely, because we have no great subconscious burdens to…
Culture & Society
Tragedy in Nepal Royal Family Massacred
Word spread early in the morning on June 2, 2001, that something very wrong had happened a few hours earlier […]
September/October, 2001
All Joy is Founded in God
The great rishis made an exhaustive study of the sources of joy. Today's material preoccupation does not provide th…
September/October, 2001
Letters to the Editor 9-2001
Tackle the Misconceptions I read with interest your journal and find it very interesting and enlightening. I hope you ar…
September/October, 2001
Quotes & Quips
"Find God.That is the only purpose in life." Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) There is one thing God cannot do He c…
Hindu Festivals
Siva’s Great Night in Mauritius
By Gilles Flament Every year thousands of Hindu pilgrims converge on Grand Bassin, the holy lake in the hills of [&helli…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Promoting the Saivite Religion
By Kesav One of South India’s oldest ashrams is gearing up for something new. Under the leadership of two pontiffs…
Environment
Rethinking Science
By Mark Hawthorne In the scientific community, the name Rupert Sheldrake raises eyebrows. After all, this is the biologi…
Hindu Festivals
Holy Festivals
When it comes to Hindu festivals, Nepal rules. they celebrate 19 a year on their official calendar, three of them [&hell…
Culture & Society
India’s New Abuse Laws Still Miss the Mark
The following article by Madhu Kishwar is excerpted from Manushi, a Journal About Women and Society, a non-profit magazi…
Environment
To the Source of Ganga
By Prabha Prabhakar Bhardwaj Many magical tales are told about Gangotri, the mythical wellspring of the Ganges, India…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Lord Hanuman’s Festival
By GITANJALI CHAK These days, the mercury hovers around a scorching 113 degrees Fahrenheit in Lucknow, the capital of th…
Culture & Society
Baba of the Lepers
By Rita Frenchman Baba Amte loved the lepers of India and wanted to help them. Inspired by the Hindu principle [……
Opinion
Spiritual Initiation Requires Preparation
BY SWAMI BHUTESHANANDA Hindus who have a guru strive to receive spiritual initiation from him. In this talk, given in [&…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Meet God’s Arbitrator
By Vrindavanam S. Gopalakrishnan At least 30 people men, women and children sit waiting in the lobby for an audience [&h…
Environment
Harvesting the Monsoons
By Tirtho Banerjee Fifteen years ago, no father wanted to marry off his daughter to a boy from the village […]
September/October, 2001
Digital Dharma
FASHION Click Here for Clothing Find stylish Hindu outfits on the Web for the whole family By Nilima Srikantha, Nevada, …