Quotes & Quips
"WE BELIEVE WE ARE NOT IDOL WORSHIPERS. WE ARE IDEAL WORSHIPERS." Swami Sidheshwaranand, of the Ramakrishna mission, challenged in 1947 […]
Vedanta in Latvia?
More than 30 years ago, Latvian-born Rudite Emir, 59, received a mystical poem by Rabindrinath Tagore translated into her native
Letters
DYING IN DUBAI I have been informed by our authorities that the news item Stranded at Death (Briefly, Nov. 98)
Life, the Great Experience
BY SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI At one time or another in life, each of us has had similar experiences of temptation.
Diaspora
HEALTH Toxic Bindis Alarmed by stories of Indian women developing the disfiguring skin disease leucoderma on their forehead, India’s Industrial
Assessing Inter-Faith Assemblies
By Sri Sri Sri Balagangadharanathaswami In 1993 in Chicago, The Parliament of the World’s Religions met again, 100 years after
She Dances with Devas
By Lavina Melwani She had danced before the mighty: Mao Zdong, Zhou Enlai, Queen Elizabeth II, Tito, Kruschev, Eisenhower, Fidel
Digital Dharma
Asia eZine Enter monsoon, the on-line magazine of South Asian literature and culture, an at-home creation of Shikha Malaviya, correspondent
Growing up Hindu
By Tara Katir Hillary Clinton got it right when she wrote, “It takes a village to raise a child.” But,
Lotus: Food For the Body
By Anil K. Goel Besides its sanctity and beauty, the lotus is extensively used as both food and medicine in