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Veero Kolhi was a slave of landlords. She has broken the shackles of slavery and has stood up against them in the elections. When she made the asset declaration required of candidates for Pakistan’s May elections, she listed the following items: two beds, five mattresses, cooking pots and a bank account with life savings of [...]

Who is Shiva? And what is the meaning of the shivalinga, Shiva’s symbol or icon? Who is Parvati? Why do people go on pilgrimage to places like the Amaranath cave in Kashmir? What is the relationship between Shiva and Vishnu? What is the meaning of Shiva’s dance? In the Vedic way God, or Brahman, is [...]

While the mantle of the world largest beef exporting nation has traditionally been a three-way race between Australia, Brazil and the US, 2012 has seen India race ahead of the pack, with expectations for Indian beef exports to grow again in 2013  Indian lean and low priced beef is marketed mainly in the Middle East, [...]

John Hagelin, Ph.D. Dr. John Hagelin is a world-renowned, Harvard-trained quantum physicist, life-long educator, author, science and public policy expert, chair of the Center for Leadership Performance, and president of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace. Dr. Hagelin has conducted pioneering research at CERN (the European Center for Particle Physics) and [...]

Let us look at what Hinduism holds to be the Absolute. The ultimate goal and Absolute of Hinduism is termed “Brahman” in Sanskrit. The word comes from the Sanskrit verb root brh, meaning “to grow”. Etymologically, the term means “that which grows” (brhati) and “which causes to grow” (brhmayati). Brahman, as understood by the scriptures [...]

India is the land they connect their lives to. And their luck seemed to shine when they found a safe shelter so miraculously. The Superintendent of Central Excise and Customs at Delhi airport, Nahar has turned out to be a genie out of the bottle for hundreds of Sindhi refugees who’ve been crossing the border [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Pandit Vamadev Shastri shows how western academics and Indologists lack the insight to the deeper meanings behind Vedic Symbolic Language used in the Vedas to come to their conclusions. The Twofold Modern Denigration of the Vedas: Historical and Spiritual The nineteenth era marked a twofold assessment of Vedic culture that arose from western scholars and [...]