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By Asha Goswami Lord Krishna is the most charming figure in the three worlds (vibhradvapuh sakalasundarasannivesham… tribhuvanakamanam). He is eternal, and is beyond time and space. He is...
The book India for a Billion Reasons, edited by Amit Dasgupta, is an effort to celebrate Indian-ness, imagined and articulated differently by over a billion Indians. This finely-crafted...
Pandit Pandharinath Kolhapure is one of the eight rudra veena players in the country who, without much media attention, is striving to revive people’s interest in the instrument,...
Dr Arvind Sharma How astronauts experiencing no gravity are like realized souls experiencing no karma Karma is a key Hindu concept not always easily explained. Comparing it with...
The present generation of Hindus owe much to Shivaji. Although he is famous throughout the length and...
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Janmashtami celebrates the birth of Lord Krishna. Krishna’s birth on ashtami, the eighth day of a lunar...
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Indian translator and author Kurchi Dasgupta, who shifted to Kathmandu from Kolkata in 2005 — the tumultuous...
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Hopefully, Usain will be the only Bolt missing when the Commonwealth Games begin on October 3. The...
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What do the spin-doctors mean when they tout the Commonwealth Games (CWG) as a chance for Delhi...
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PNS | New Delhi Bad news for BlackBerry users. The Home Ministry has issued a strong warning...
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A patient of dietician Dr Rachna Sethi was only 18 and weighed 160 kg. “He belonged to...
July 29 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »How did you discover your love for music? Fifteen years ago, I had a small unique electronic musical instrument in which you hit an electronic pencil on a silver plate and it created vibrating sounds. It was my first encounter with a musical instrument and this drew me later to the world of Western music....
July 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »By KBS Ramachandra Of the many twists and turns in the Ramayana, the most troubling one is that of Rama abandoning Sita based on the public perception of her character. The difficult period of vanavaasa (forest stay) was over. The trauma of losing his beloved and all the troubles to recover her from the clutches...
July 15 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »The master Soyen Shaku passed from this world when he was sixty-one years of age. Fulfilling his life's work, he left a great teaching, far richer than that of most Zen masters. His pupils used to sleep in the daytime during midsummer, and while he overlooked this he himself never wasted a minute....
October 24 2009 / No comment / Read More »Don't you just hate terrorists? Even when they fail, they make life difficult for us. Back in December 2001, just three months after 9/11, Richard Reid, a passenger on an American Airlines flight, tried to ignite explosives hidden in his shoes. Fortunately for everyone on board, Reid's shoe size was considerably higher than his IQ....
January 17 2010 / No comment / Read More »By U. Mahesh Prabhu Feelings and emotions are explicit testimonies to the fact that we are men. But when we fail to tame them and flow with them, our life is on a sure path to disaster. There is a word in Sanskrit, which is largely unparalleled in any other language, called Stitaprajna. Simply translated...
November 6 2009 / No comment / Read More »The Chatur Ramalingam in him tickled the funny bones in 3Idiots, and now the man with a strange accent is doing the same as a host in Chhote Ustaad. Omi...
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By Meenakshi Rao Aamir is out with another sizzler, this time a hard hitting satire news live on TV channels. Though I...
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Rarely do we get to see them together among the Delhi circuit but a recent event in the capital organized by an...
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Veda Vyasa is a legendary Hindu sage, whose very name is synonymous to Hindus with knowledge. According to traditional Hindu accounts, he...
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By MSN Menon The Hindu and Greek civilisations were the greatest among the civilisations of men. But today there is an attempt...
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For the first time, a quantitative chemical analysis done on seven paintings from the Louvre Museum of France, without disturbing any samples,...
July 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »The present generation of Hindus owe much to Shivaji. Although he is famous throughout the length and breadth of India, in the West many Hindus, will not even have heard...
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