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HYDERABAD: The great Indian divide along north-south lines now stands blurred. A pathbreaking study by Harvard and indigenous researchers on ancestral Indian populations says there is a genetic relationship between all Indians and more importantly, the hitherto believed “fact” that Aryans and Dravidians signify the ancestry of north and south Indians might after all, be [...]

Legendary Surreal Film Directer David Lynch gives a brief talk Consciousness, Creativity and Vedic Science [...]

Four bloggers arrested amid crackdown in Bangladesh Bangladeshi bloggers form a human chain to protest the detention of their colleagues. (AFP/Munir uz Zaman) New York : The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the recent arrests of four Bangladeshi bloggers in Dhaka in connection with their Internet posts that police said hurt the religious [...]

Turmeric is a spice that is widely used as a spice for cooking in Indian kitchen. It is one of the most basic Indian spices without which food cannot be cooked in Indian households. But turmeric is not just a culinary ingredient. Turmeric has many spiritual uses in India. These spiritual uses of turmeric extend [...]

Guest speakers discuss the following questions: What can we understand about the layers of the mind? “Who” is the thinker? Is consciousness located in a specific part of the brain? How do some of the latest findings about the brain connect with the Vedic Tradition? Talk 1 : Dr. Karen Shanor Ph.D., Clinical and Neuropsychologist, [...]

The British public no longer fit into just three social classes, with society now split into seven based on economic, social and cultural measures, a major new study has discovered. Unlike the three traditional class divisions the new classes range from the privileged ‘elite’ to the deprived ‘precariat’  More than 160,000 people took part in [...]

IN THE upper reaches of the Ganga, numerous hydel projects threaten the river’s ecosystem. And in the plains, as the river flows through the states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, a toxic mix of untreated sewage, discarded garbage, agricultural run-off and industrial waste flow unabated into it. Hindus regard the Ganga water [...]

Devotees went for a traditional bath to mark the Karthik Purnima religious ceremony celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu calendar month of Karthik Images of the foam-coated river show the extent of the pollution of the Yamuna around New Delhi Indian government has spent nearly £200 million trying to clean up the [...]

WASHINGTON: The White House has wholeheartedly embraced Yoga as a worthy physical activity at a time some schools in America are railing against the ancient Indian practice, saying it promotes Hinduism. The White House announced last week that President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will include a ‘yoga garden’ for children and their [...]

Today, science and religion say that a single entity or force created the universe and is omnipresent, maintaining and governing the fundamental machinery of everything in this and other universes. In Hinduism, Brahman is the one supreme, universal Spirit that is the origin and support of the universe.  The very first book of Hindus named [...]