The doyen of Carnatic Music MS Subbulakshmi was born as Kunjamma in the temple city of Madurai on September 16 1916 Subbulakshmi made her debut as a singer at the age of 8 and went on to perform in ...

Hinduism is a fabulous religion as well as the worlds third largest religion with 95 of the Hindus living in a single nation Hindus believe in a circular time frame rather than the linear time concept ...

Without the Sun there will be no life on Earth Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutation is an ancient technique of paying respect or expressing gratitude to the Sun that is ...

Walking us through Attar s Conference of the Birds MARGUERITE THEOPHIL tells us why she finds stories that speak of our eternal spiritual quest so appealing As a young girl I used to read The Pilgrim ...

On a day trip to Washington DC NARAYANI GANESH returns enriched with exhibits from India in the National Gallery of Art On an unusually bright summer day this June a school friend I was visiting in Ba ...

Sharad Purnima celebrates ecstatic divine love and several stories in the Bhagavata illustrate this Shiva roused from meditation on hearing Krishna s flute rushes to Vrindavan where Vrinda Devi stalls ...

It s a look or glance that many believe can bring bad luck at whom it is directed says Devdutt PattanaikThe priests of Varanasi s KalBhairav Temple are known for their jhaadna or the dusting off of ne ...

Swami Vivekananda as the nation celebrates his 110th anniversary Man comes from God in the beginning in the middle he becomes man and in the end he goes back to GodHe is an Acharya through whom the Di ...

GUSTASP and JEROO IRANI return from the island nation blessed to have witnessed nature at her creative best in a land where the past and present coexist peacefully Old habits die hard When Reverend Th ...

Ganesha wants me to take the symbol of the eye for Scorpios Scorpio is the investigative eye the hawk s eyes the allseeing eye and the bionic eye of modern technology In addition the Italians say L oc ...

We all have seen Radha along with shree Krishna in so many temples and know that they are the embodiment of love and the purest form of love We know that they are divine lovers but many of us do not k ...

Chennai An Anna University department s decision to make it mandatory for thirdsemester BTech students to study the Bhagavad Gita as a paper has triggered unease in academic circles and drew a protest ...