The Spoiling of the Ganges
Our consciousness has gone in-to a slumber. Our sensitivity has slipped into a strange coma,” laments activist Rakesh Kumar Jaiswal […]
Malaysia’s Everest Quest
Interviews by RAMESH SIVANATHAN and RAJAKUMAR M ANICKAM, Malaysia Thank God! Thank God!’ was the first thing I said when
Kerala Siva Temples
By VRINDAVANAM S. GOPALAKRISHNAN Two thousand and more timber temples dot Kerala’s verdant landscape. Devotee’s devotion have created them in
India – Once Plentiful
Most of us college-educated Indians were taught that inefficient technologies and low productivities pervaded through long ages in practically all
Multi-Tailed Comet Visits
Comets through the ages have always brought with them a sense of mystery, foreboding awe and sometimes downright terror. Can
Sky’s Not the Limit
By LAVINA MELWANI, NEW YORK Who would have thought that a young Indian girl with her feet firmly on the
Sacred Psychiatry
By VRINDAVANAM S. GOPAIAKRISHNAN My wife developed mental problems when she was pregnant in 1965. All types of treatment, from
‘Deep River’ – a Japanese Odyssey to Holy Ganga
WITH JYOTHI VENKATESH, Mumbai A bus of Japanese tourists bounces east, sightseeing from Delhi toward Banaras and the Ganga. “Oh,
City’s Cross Must Go
In two decisions just days apart by the United States Federal Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California, a 103-foot
Tulsi and Rudraksha
Plants provide our food, clothes, medicine, building materials and the oxygen we breath, yet we seldom honor their import. Perhaps