The Arts
Dressing for Heaven
By PRABHA PRABHAKAR BHARDWAJ India’s top fashion designers–Ritu Beri, Reena Dhaka, Anju Modi and Atlier Samd…
Topic
March, 1997
23 articles
Health & Ayurveda
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 [&h…
The Arts
Banaras: Eclipsed by a camera
By LAVINA MELWANI, NEW YORK A hundred chattering temple monkeys wake up New York photographer Marcus Leatherdale from sl…
March, 1997
Digital Dharma
INTERFAITH TEST YOUR TOLERANCE Ontario consultants on Religious Tolerance are promoting the understanding of minority re…
Philosophy & Scripture
Yoga in Daily Life: Perfect Way to God
By Paramahamsa Swami Maheshwarananda Divine consciousness that is eternal, omniscient and omnipresent and resides in eac…
Temples & Pilgrimage
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 …
Environment
Tulsi and Rudraksha
Plants provide our food, clothes, medicine, building materials and the oxygen we breath, yet we seldom honor their impor…
Publisher's Editorials
Meditation Can Be More Than You Bargained for
By Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Desperate states of mind are disturbing many people these days. They are caught in em…
Culture & Society
Zzammpf-Kaboom!
By the Editor Has it always been this way, this anguishing about who we are, this defensiveness bordering on paranoia [&…
March, 1997
Letters
Don’t Believe in Mantras? The following story which I read in The Essentials of Hinduism by Swami Bhaskarananda pr…
March, 1997
Diaspora
PUBLISHING ARTS Unbearably Beautiful Self-realization fellowship’s 1997 desk calendar Inner Reflections is, no exa…
March, 1997
Quotes & Quips
"Nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by man." Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) …
Opinion
Our Future in a Fast Moving World
BY DR. S.M. PONNIAH I welcome this opportunity to “take my turn” and herald the advent of a new millennium […
Environment
City’s Cross Must Go
In two decisions just days apart by the United States Federal Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California, a 103-foot …
The Arts
Contested Contest
By CHOODIE SHIVARAM, BANGALORE Miss world ’96 beauty pageant is now over. The world beauty was crowned on November…
March, 1997
Briefly . . .
A HINDU PRAYER recited by Pundit S. Ramakrishnan opened the Maryland state general assembly in the US. It was the [&hell…
Philosophy & Scripture
Mountainous Sage
By ANANDHI RAMACHANDRAN, CHENNAI Once as a child I asked my father “Are there rishis like Agastya, Vishwamitra and…
Environment
‘Deep River’ – a Japanese Odyssey to Holy Ganga
WITH JYOTHI VENKATESH, Mumbai A bus of Japanese tourists bounces east, sightseeing from Delhi toward Banaras and the Gan…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Sacred Psychiatry
By VRINDAVANAM S. GOPAIAKRISHNAN My wife developed mental problems when she was pregnant in 1965. All types of treatment…
Health & Ayurveda
DHEA – Menace or Miracle?
Stop aging now!” “Do we have the fountain of youth?” These are some of the exaggerated claims found in…
March, 1997
EVOLUTIONS
OLDEST-EVER: Bir Narayan Chaudhary of Nepal is reliably said to be 141 years old, making him the oldest human on [&helli…
Philosophy & Scripture
Ramana as a Family Affair
BY ANANDHI RAMACHANDRAN, CHENNAI From what I had heard about Sarada Natarajan, I had expected to see an elderly lady [&h…
The Arts
Seven Days for Seven Planets
Plato wrote: “the sun, moon and five other planets were created by God in order to distinguish and preserve the [&…