Recently, there was a conference in Delhi on the many different aspects of Bharat’s amazing soft power – like cuisine, Ayurveda, crafts, languages, dance and many more. Spirituality is in…
External Affairs Minister, Smt. Sushma Swaraj met Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nepal, Mr. Pradeep Kumar Gyawali on 10 January 2019. Foreign Minister Mr. Gyawali was visiting New Delhi to…
Yesterday I came to meet Ram Roshan Das Baba, Chhote Mahanth of Janaki Temple at Janakpurdham, Nepal. Upon my query “what different, people would sense during the Vivah Panchami of…
It was standing-room only for 425 Hindus and Jews who made a bit of history celebrating both Diwali and Chanukah at the Hindu-Jewish Festival of Lights at Temple Beth-El in Northbrook,…
On November 17, 2018, Hon’ble Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Government of Nepal Mr. Rabindra Adhikari inaugurated Shree Saraswati Tika Higher Secondary School, Lekhnath. The inauguration ceremony was…
We emerged from the long shadows of a thousand years of ravaging, savaging, ruin and rule by ideologies that were neither native nor accommodative nor respectful of Bharat and its…
This is Lucknowi Tehzeeb today right out of old Lucknow, the day after Ashura (ie ‘muharram’). In the photo above, on the left are – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Ayatollah…
Since ancient Vedic times, Bharat has been regarded by its people as a sacred land, the very land of the Devi or Divine Mother. The subcontinent geographically is shaped like…
Most people are surprised when told that Bharat’s Gāndhārī and Khotan Saka were the main languages of Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, from the earliest recorded times to about 1000 CE, where I…
Every now and then we are hit by a flurry of articles about mob lynching related to cattle thefts but the narratives in these articles tend to be one-sided in multiple ways.