On the eve of Radha Ashtami on September 13 this year SEEMA BURMAN writes of the close relationship between god and gopi an intimacy where the two become One ...

The Netherlandsborn UKeducated Pakistani writer REEMA ABBASI insists Pakistan is pluralistic despite reports of attacks on nonIslamic places of worship here This is South Asia not Saudi Arabia says th ...

A series of ashwamedh yagna all over the country has been a very important phase in campaign of establishing the era of Truth Dev Sanskriti Digvijay abhiyaan Ashwamedh yagna in the Steel City ...

More people today are invoking Sant Kabir to transcend boundaries that choke creative freedom A report from the Mahindra Kabira Festival in Varanasi by NARAYANI GANESHThe price is high but the prize i ...

Some believe that when a person dies nothing remains that death is the end of personality Others believe in the continuity of life That the present incarnation is only a link in the chain of one s ent ...

In Sartre s play No Exit Henri a member of the Maquis the underground resistance group which fought against the Nazis in Germanoccupied France during World War II is taken prisoner and brought to the ...

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SONAL SRIVASTAVA trails the Ganga from where the river takes form at Devprayag to where it achieves the apex of its glory at Varanasi Kashi or Banaras the city of ShivaAfter an overnight bus journey w ...

Guru Nanak Dev the founder of Sikh religion observed the pathetic condition of women in the society Guru Nanak comdemned the attitude of maledominated human society denying the due respectable status ...

Many people recite the mantra quietly in their mind but at the same time their mind is muddled with so many other things that the mantra gives no benefit That is why you are told to find a place where ...

In an introduction to this delightful book by GYONPO TSHERING editor MARGARET GEE sings paeans to Bhutan s holistic outlookBhutan is flanked by India China and Tibet a tiny jewel of a country nestled ...

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