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August 2003

A Life Less Ordinary

The rank smell of drying fish assailed my nostrils as the bus pulled into the sleepy depot at Yari Road in Mumbai. The handkerchief in my pocket smelt exactly as if it had been used to wrap a clam. Sweat poured off me in rivers..... More >>

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Exercise Your Memory

by Nishtha Shukla

Poor thing is cursed time and again for no fault of its own. Like one hell of a careless boss, we don’t register what it has done, but clutch tightly to all that it hasn’t. And if that wasn’t enough, we even blame it for our faux... More >>

The Healing Power of Love

by Reeta Dutta Gupta

Imagine a situation when you are faced with a life-threatening illness. What are you most likely to do? Delve into chronic depression and lose the zest for living? But when author Reeta Dutta Gupta heard she had cancer, she took... More >>

Showers of Wellness

by Suma Varughese

Staying healthy while it rains sneezes and fevers all around you can be a breeze if you take necessary precautions. We asked a battery of alternative health practitioners for tips to stay on top of monsoon malaises and this is... More >>

I Will? Or God’s Will?

by Maria Wirth

How much influence do I have on my life? Every generation asks this question anew. However, there is no clear-cut answer to it. Do I have much, little or no influence on my life? Opinions vary, but most people may feel that it... More >>

Secrets of Tratak Sadhana

by Suma Varughese

Channelising Energies

by Nishtha Shukla

When Anma, Japanese for massage, was increasingly becoming popular as a technique for relaxation and pleasure, some practitioners were keen on preserving the gamut of massages as therapeutic, healing art. Consequently, the art of... More >>

Awakening Lightness of Being

by Anuradha Vashisht

Years after the sacred ceremony of initiation into the spiritual order, the journey is dotted by newer awakening each moment in the presence of the Master

A fierce downpour lashed at the windshield on that cold January... More >>

Soups a Delicious, Wholesome, Low Cal
Soups may not have been a traditional part of Indian cuisine because our food itself, being laden with curries, dals and chutneys, has a soupy consistency. For the West, though, it has been an inevitable part of a well-designed... More >>

Heartspeak - Life of Piety and Purity

by Saina Bedi

Being Kiran Bedi’s daughter and Shirdi Sai Baba’s unflinching devotee, Saina Bedi knows God has a plan for her.

I don’t know much about past life but I do know that my devotion to Sai Baba of Shirdi goes much beyond... More >>

Travelling Light Words of Wisdom

by Suma Varughese

For all of us on the spiritual path, a constant and luminous source of insight and knowledge is the existence of books. Ultimately, of course, we have to go beyond them and confront the cold and naked reality of our lives and... More >>

Meeting the Goddess Meenakshi

by Rachna Singh Chopra

A story goes that when the childless King of Madurai, Pandian was performing a yagna, a three-year-old girl appeared from the sacrificial fire. The girl was pretty, but had three breasts. This worried the king. However, a divine... More >>

A Taste of the Yoga Diet

by Shameem Akthar

(Brahman is the oblation, also the offering, by Brahman is this oblation poured into the fire of Brahman, the one who sees Brahman in all will reach Brahman. This Vedic prayer is offered before meals, with the agni signifying... More >>

The Power of Prayer

by Dr. Dayal Mirchandani

For thousands of years prayer and a few herbs were all that medicine really had to offer. Today many therapists believe that the healing schools of reiki, energy and pranic healing are really ritualised prayers to a higher power... More >>

A Tough Act to Follow

by Gopika Nath

Misconceptions about leading a spirituality-based life abound. It is often considered that following spiritual practices, the practitioner becomes free from pain, stress and all negative emotions.

Contrarily, what I have... More >>

Leo -Your Sun Sign
Leo is the sun’s own house. Second of the three summer signs as well as the three fire signs, it reflects the sun’s position in the solar system, suggesting the essential consciousness of the sun.

Coming at that time of... More >>

Revelations - paradise lost
the provocative title betrays the author’s worldview instantly. right now, the world seems divided into two starkly opposite camps: one which cannot get enough of the western civilisation with its implications of democracy,... More >>

Revelations - for effortless samadhi

by Pallavi Bhatacharya

There have certainly been numerous books on meditation, but this one is different. yogiraj nanak’s dehypnotic meditation introduces a unique concept of meditation. yogiraj nanak is the 14th spiritual descendent to the seat of the... More >>

Revelations - playing god

by Aparna Jacob

God knows how difficult it is to be human. but who knows how difficult it is to be god? bruce does.

it all starts with bruce nolan (jim carrey), a small time reporter for a buffalo news station, being what humans normally... More >>

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