When not in Rome . . .
By VRINDAVANAM S. GOPALAKRISHNAN Peter Julia came to India from Spain in 1948 as a 23-year-old Jesuit priest. Today, at […]
Banaras: Eclipsed by a camera
By LAVINA MELWANI, NEW YORK A hundred chattering temple monkeys wake up New York photographer Marcus Leatherdale from sleep before
Yoga for India’s Army
By DIPANKAR DAS, NEW DELHI What do you think is the latest addition to the Indian armed forces’ arsenal? Early
Dressing for Heaven
By PRABHA PRABHAKAR BHARDWAJ India’s top fashion designers–Ritu Beri, Reena Dhaka, Anju Modi and Atlier Samde–joined together to offer Delhites
Sacred Psychiatry
By VRINDAVANAM S. GOPAIAKRISHNAN My wife developed mental problems when she was pregnant in 1965. All types of treatment, from
Mountainous Sage
By ANANDHI RAMACHANDRAN, CHENNAI Once as a child I asked my father “Are there rishis like Agastya, Vishwamitra and Vashishta
Contested Contest
By CHOODIE SHIVARAM, BANGALORE Miss world ’96 beauty pageant is now over. The world beauty was crowned on November 23
McDonald’s Deli in Delhi
The beefcake at the Miss World beauty contest in Bangalore is getting a lot more press, but the opening of
A Day in the Life of India
By ARCHANA DONGRE, Los ANGELES, AND RAJIV MALIK, NEW DELHI Pre dawn, early February, 1995, a team of 18 Indian
Tribals Take a Walk
It seemed like a good idea at the time–to declare a “Year of the Indigenous Peoples” in 1993 to coincide