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Featuring some of Hanuman’s best loved teachers and Music by Saul David Raye. [...]

WASHINGTON:  If yoga is the practice of quieting the mind, as Patanjali, chronicler of the spiritual quest said, its practitioners couldn’t have picked a better place than New York City’s Times’ Square to put the aphorism to test. Some 16,000 yoga aficionados turned up at what is arguably the world’s glitziest – if not busiest [...]

Diminutive-looking Harmanpreet, a 13-year-old Sikh pilgrim, had almost fainted when a waiter at an open-front restaurant quoted Rs 500 for a rice-bowl and Rs 180 for a wheat roti to his accompanying grandfather, while they were stranded on their way to Hemkund Sahib in rain-ravaged Uttarakhand. They starved for a marathon 43 hours and resisted [...]

The annual Amarnath Yatra is facing a terror threat and the government is making all efforts to ensure security of the pilgrims, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Wednesday. “There is terror threat to Amarnath Yatra,” Shinde told reporters when asked about reports which suggested threat to the pilgrimage to the cave shrine in Jammu [...]

The famous Kedarnath shrine was virtually submerged in mud and hit by boulders big as cars in the devastating flash flood that hit the temple town on June 16 leaving behind devastation and killing many. [...]

The summer solstice, 21 June, is one of the most important dates in the calendar for many followers of ancient religions, and it’s a special time for people in Greece who worship the country’s pre-Christian gods. “I love the energy this place has,” says Exsekias Trivoulides who has pitched his tent on what he considers [...]

RANCHI: The statue of Mother Mary wearing a red border sari and holding Jesus Christ in a way tribal women of Jharkhand hold their babies, by tying them to a white cloth, has been creating controversies in the city for the past few days. A procession was taken out by the Sarna society against this [...]

On the eve of World environment Day on 5th June ‘Mahadev Ganga Mahotsav’ was organised in Delhi for a nationwide support for preservation of rivers and making them less pollutant. A discussion was held at Siri Fort Auditorium on this day regarding “Clean Yamuna for a Clean Ganga” campaign. Panelists from politics and entertainment field [...]

Tantra for the practitioner Christopher D. Wallis, Oxford graduate in Comparative Religion and assistant professor of Sanskrit in Berkeley, treats us to a very well-written book: Tantra Illuminated. The Philosophy, History and Practice of a Timeless Tradition (Anusara Press, The Woodlands TX, 2012). It is academically sound yet stands out among the dry academic works [...]

  To The Global Intellectual Community and The Chairmen Honorable Human Rights Commissions   Subject: Urgent Plea To Take Notice On Pinki Gang-Rape Case for 55 Days Long In Bangladesh   Respected Sir/Ma’am With due respect and humble submission I beg to state that this is the third time I am writing on behalf of [...]