Playing God?
In July 1996 a Blackface ewe gave birth to lamb 6LL3, an outwardly normal baby sheep, at the Roslin Institute’s […]
Sotheby’s Illicit India Artifacts
Television audiences in the UK and the USA watched in amazement as Roeland Kollewijn of the Sotheby’s auction house casually
Keep Science at Peace with Nature
By Mata Amritanandamayi The idea of cloning, though implemented only recently through modern science, was in the minds of the
Swami, Bill Clinton Has a Question
BY THE EDITOR Questions from the White House are infrequent enough, even when indirect, that the Hinduism Today staff was
The Caning Backlash
In 18th-century America and most other countries, the master of the house could freely beat his wife, his child, his
Elders: Our Blessing, Not our Burden
By Prabha Prabhakar Bhardwaj Nearly two decades ago I left India to live and work in Kenya, Africa. On my
What’s So Funny About Hinduism
By the Editor Ah, religion, that sober, somber, somniferous science, so soulful and oh-so-solemn. Perhaps. But only one whose funny
Good Money, Bad Money
BY SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI My satguru, the venerable Sage Yogaswami, discriminated between good money and bad money and taught us
Sacred Pilgrimage
Five duties, called pancha kriya, form the traditional minimal practices expected of every Hindu: upasana (worship); utsava (holy days); dharma
No Calypso for Hindu Kids
Trinidad Hindus blasted a government minister’s proposal to make calypso–the native folk music–a compulsory subject in the Caribbean nation’s primary