Our ancient scriptures mention the Kalpavriksha and the Chaityavriksha as a deity which indicates that worshipping trees is indeed an ancient Indian practice The Ancient Aryans worshiped nature Plants ...

Where there is Rama and Ramayana there is Hanuman says Philip Lutgendorf professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies at the University of Iowa and author of books such as Hanuman s Tale and the Ramca ...

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The Indian diaspora worldwide keeps alive the universal values revealed in the story of Rama reports RANJENI A SINGH Goswami Tulsidas in the 16th century said of Rama in the Ramcharitmanas Jaki rahi b ...

The doyen of Carnatic Music MS Subbulakshmi was born as Kunjamma in the temple city of Madurai on September 16 1916 Subbulakshmi made her debut as a singer at the age of 8 and went on to perform in co ...

Walking us through Attar s Conference of the Birds MARGUERITE THEOPHIL tells us why she finds stories that speak of our eternal spiritual quest so appealing As a young girl I used to read The Pilgrim ...

Without the Sun there will be no life on Earth Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutation is an ancient technique of paying respect or expressing gratitude to the Sun that is ...

Sharad Purnima celebrates ecstatic divine love and several stories in the Bhagavata illustrate this Shiva roused from meditation on hearing Krishna s flute rushes to Vrindavan where Vrinda Devi stalls ...

On a day trip to Washington DC NARAYANI GANESH returns enriched with exhibits from India in the National Gallery of Art On an unusually bright summer day this June a school friend I was visiting in Ba ...

GUSTASP and JEROO IRANI return from the island nation blessed to have witnessed nature at her creative best in a land where the past and present coexist peacefully Old habits die hard When Reverend Th ...

Ganesha wants me to take the symbol of the eye for Scorpios Scorpio is the investigative eye the hawk s eyes the allseeing eye and the bionic eye of modern technology In addition the Italians say L oc ...