Video games are famous for their ferocity. Often, they cause gamers to verge on insanity, suffer nightmares and even contemplate or commit ...

The journey of soul is cyclic: from nothingness to the ego of I-ness and back to nothingness.

Shiva comes disguised as a tribal to test the mettle of the warrior-prince Arjuna. Initially fooled, he intuits to the divinity within us a...

Blue-winged parakeets descend on the trees lining the way to the shrine of Baba Budangiri.

Cinnamon-capped green beeeaters buzz around as our bus winds through the scenic Chandradrona range of hills of Karnataka.

The liquid-lute-like call of orioles heralds mango blossom season in the city.The forest too is aflame with Palash, and the fields awash wi...

But the floridly transgressive sage (Unmatta pishachavritti) is also enlightenment embodied (Jnanamurtim). We bow to Him, the Remover of Du...

A few days back, your columnist went to the Chaunsat Yogini temple at Bhedaghat. The shrine straddles the meeting point of the Narmada and ...

Nissarsaab is said to have returned the favour by learning Sanskrit from his disciple and Pran-Piya composed numerous compositions in prais...

Zen Master Xu-Yun was deeply distrustful about monasteries and believed that enlightenment was a scam.

When Jesus pronounced “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted” , he was alluding to deep mystical experience of those suff...

All messengers of God, divine incarnations, spiritual masters, saints, sufis and saviors of past, present (and of future) are worthy of hig...

On the eve of Janmashtami at his home in Mumbai, noted flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia is preparing for his annual 24-hour music marathon to ...

Sunrise over Konya is awe-inspiring, particularly when one views it from the top of a 18-storey building. We're searching for the silhouett...

Ustad Rais Khan is returning to Pakistan. The sitar maestro of the Mewat gharana had come to India to see his ailing mother, who expired so...

Discs of recorded history are on sale in the foyer of Mumbai’s Akashvani theatre. To listen to one is to go back in time, when Sky-Voice do...

As our car moves over the Vashi bridge the landscape architect talks about the role played by first impressions in choice and creativity. H...