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Black out or Back lash?
By Swami Abhayananda Tirtha
Year – 1996, Place – Atlanta, Event – Olympics
Will he? Won’t he? As the world waited with bated breadth, Mr. Mohammed Ali, the boxing legend held the torch nervously. Three decades ago with the …
Bhagavad Gita in Iraq
By Antony Brenon
An American soldier sees hundreds dying at the battlefield in Iraq. He wonders about the questions that have disturbed mankind for over two millennium; ‘Who are we?’ ‘What is death and is there …
Live in Relationships
By Dr. Manu Gupta
Perks without liability!!!
A Supreme Court judgment betrays the judges’ scanty spiritual knowledge
Last week I went to a friend’s house. Looking at the beautiful Chowpatty beach from the window of his third story apartment, we …
Glories of Maharana Pratap Singh
By Swami Abhayananda Tirtha
Pratap, eldest of 25 brothers and 29 sisters, was born at Kumbhalgarh [now in Rajsamand District of Rajasthan] to Maharana Udai Singh II and Maharani Javanta Bai Songara . In 1568, during …
Karma: What is it ?
By Stephen Knapp
Karma is one of those topics that many people know a little about, but few understand the intricacies of it. To start with, Newton’s thirdlaw of motion states that for every action there is an equal …
The Damage Macaulay did to India
By Francois Gautier
A country needs people who are proud of their own culture and civilization in order to move forward. That is what true nationalism – as opposed to jingoism – is all about. It …
Where Medicine Blends with Devotion Part 1
By Vraja Vihari Dasa
Ambulances sounding their sirens screech to a halt. Bodies, mutilated beyond recognition, keep pouring in. Ten kilometers north, another blast-the seventh in eleven minutes-has terrorized the city. As anxious and bereaved relatives …
Does the Society Breed on Greed?
By Vraja Bihari Dasa
“Whatever pure fame is possessed by the famous and whatever praiseworthy qualities are found in the virtuous are destroyed by even a small amount of greed, just as one’s attractive physical beauty …