Music has a special power to move us and stir our emotions Anyone who has ever wiped tears away from their eyes listening to their favourite sad song will know how powerful simple notes and chords can ...

Yoga scriptures say that the pranashakti or life force called kundalini dwells at the base of the sushumna the spinal column in the muladhara or base chakra of each individual from where it controls t ...

Our society never welcomes a girl child In most families girls are not pampered as compared to boys because having a son is ...

MICHAEL FISCHMAN recounts the time he experienced a lightness of being and became Shankara on the auspicious night of Maha Shivaratri I began to fall in love with India and with the colourful rituals ...

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The Kancheepuram Sankara Math is renovating an old temple at Mahendra Mangalam near Tiruchi in south Tamil Nadu Situated on the banks of the Cauvery the temple with idols of presiding deity Chandramou ...

Trees bear fruit only to be eaten by others fields grow grains that are consumed by the world Cow gives milk but doesn39t drink it herself Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth In such giv ...

Somnath Temple is in news yet again but not for a very good reason Now nonHindus will require special permission to visit the great temple which is no less than an architectural marvel As per the news ...

SWATI CHOPRA reports on an international film festival held in the Capital recently with Buddha s message as themeEvery culture that adopted Buddhism added its own flavour to it while retaining at its ...

Trees bear fruit only to be eaten by others fields grow grains that are consumed by the world Cow gives milk but doesn39t drink it herself Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth In such giv ...

Relating to the world is not an option nor is it a matter for concern What counts is how we manage and respond to different situations We cannot free ourselves from all relationships But it is a diffe ...

South korean director born 1970s parent choreographer lost father young education interrupted choreographer parent biography Articles ...