Bookshelf: The Yoga Vashishtha
Romola Butalia reviews Swami Venkatesananda’s translation of The Yoga Vasistha, one of the greatest spiritual treatises from Vedanata philosophy. Contained in this are the spiritual teachings that Sri Rama received […]
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India Overview – Passage to India
India rewards the traveller with her spectacular landscapes, monumental architecture, timeless history, cultural kaleidoscope and romance and mysticism. On August 15, 1947 India attained independence. It adopted a parliamentary system of […]
Reflections: Yagya, Self Inquiry and Self-realisation
Dr. David Frawley, also known as Pandit Vamadeva Shastri, talks about Atma Yagya, correlating Self Inquiry with Yagya, the fire Sacrifice. More writings from his website Self-inquiry (Atma-vichara), such as […]
Binsar – One More Time Again
Binsar, 30 kms from Almora, in the Kumaon Himalayas of Uttarakhand has called me to return again and again for three decades now. My steps have retraced paths there irregularly […]
Himalayas – Kumaon – Photo Gallery
The Kumaon Himalayas comprise the west-central section of the Himalayas in northern India . They extend some 320 kms from the Sutlej River to the Kali River. The range, consists partly of the Shivalik Range in the […]
Paragliding in Himalaya – Paragliding Odyssey
Will Marks is the author of a novel, “The Highway”, which was published in India in Jun 2004. Here he shares his paragliding experiences. Snow covered mountains ripple down to […]
Sikkim: Gurudongmar – Lake of the Second Buddha
Pinaki Das, shares his experiences of Gurudongmar in Sikkim. The onset of summer reminds us each year of the call of the higher Himalayas that beckon insistently to old friend […]
Ladakh: Compelling Allure and Fascination
I went to Ladakh last October to recharge my batteries. To my utter surprise, the trip more than replenished my sense of waning cosmic consciousness. It was a soul stirring experience, […]
Rock Climbing: The Move – Perfect Climb
On a crisp early morning of Dussehra day I trudged along the path leading to the rock climbing area of the Laado Serai park near Mehrauli in South Delhi. The […]
Keukenhof: Enchanting Garden of Europe
Monami Guha Das visits Keukenhof, located between Amsterdam and The Hague in the Bulb region of Southern Holland, also known as the Garden of Europe. Dispelling the darkness of the […]