When Valmiki completed his Ramayana Narada said It is good but Hanuman39s is better A perplexed Valmiki set out to find Hanuman and reached Kadali Vana the grove of plantains where he found Hanuman s ...

The Indian diaspora worldwide keeps alive the universal values revealed in the story of Rama reports RANJENI A SINGH Goswami Tulsidas in the 16th century said of Rama in the Ramcharitmanas Jaki rahi b ...

Thousands turn up for the Ambubachi Mela at the Kamakhya Temple and wait for the temple doors to reopen after four days of shutdown says TAPATI BARUAH KASHYAPShakti is the most inspiring subject to de ...

With more cases of violence against women being reported in mainstream media SATISH K KAPOOR explores Swami Vivekananda s perspective on empowering women Swami Vivekananda argued that men and women ar ...

New Year New Hope New Year will be better than last YearWe all hope that newyear should be better than passed year or years It happens in so many cases Increas ...

The English poet Alexander Pope wrote To err is human to forgive divine This saying has now become a wellknown proverb It is a fact that everyone makes mistakes This is part of human nature But there ...

The 200th anniversary of Ajanta s rediscovery was the occasion for a celebration called Buddha s Bowl Ajanta at Asiatic Society of Mumbai It sought to link the past of these magnificent rockcut Buddhi ...

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 ...

Especially among the Muslims living in the South East Asia like Pakistan India and Myanmar there is a common practice of writing 786 while starting anything in written They too mention this number in ...

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 ...

The Indian diaspora worldwide keeps alive the universal values revealed in the story of Rama reports RANJENI A SINGH Goswami Tulsidas in the 16th century said of Rama in the Ramcharitmanas Jaki rahi b ...

Myths and rituals show that sacrificial symbolism is at the core of Puri s religious system writes Jose Carlos Gomes Da SilvaHermits gathered around sage Jaimini to know who had created the Purushotta ...