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Is Kalki the only hope?

May 17, 2012 – 4:38 PM | No Comment | 117 views

By S Gurumurthy
This article originally appeared in the Indian Express
With each passing year of the United Progressive Alliance rule, scams are rising in numbers and in the sums looted. According to one compilation, there were …

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Black out or Back lash?

April 10, 2010 – 1:47 PM | One Comment | 666 views
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

April 6, 2010 – 8:21 AM | One Comment | 1,516 views
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

April 4, 2010 – 3:11 PM | No Comment | 656 views
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

April 3, 2010 – 1:04 PM | No Comment | 1,682 views
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 ?

March 10, 2010 – 3:44 PM | No Comment | 835 views
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

March 10, 2010 – 2:40 PM | One Comment | 479 views
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

March 6, 2010 – 10:36 AM | No Comment | 369 views
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?

March 1, 2010 – 7:45 AM | No Comment | 457 views
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 …