Ishwara-nishtanchi mandiyali, a meeting of those who believe in the transcendent principle called Ishwara.Contrast this with the starker "f...

Mangalore abounds in places of spirit worship, they have Annappa, Panjurli, Ullalthi, Varahi, Guliga, Koragajja, and Raktesswari.

Booted warblers chuck-chuck among the trees as your columnist walks in the garden. They come to Mumbai every winter all the way from centra...

Emptiness is a mode of perception in which one neither adds anything to nor takes anything away from the isness of the present.

Anonagenarian friend was bereaved after 58 years of marriage. As a rationalist, his first impulse was to say no to funerary rituals.

Lakshmiji's festival celebrates harvest and the end of monsoon with vigil kept during the night of the full moon (Sharad Purnima).

Of that vast empire, nothing remains today except some exquisite temples and impressive inscriptions.

The pseudoscience alternative to the feat would be to bestow qualities of the mythological Jupiter on to the newly-discovered Jove.

We are rafting on the river Kaveri that once marked the boundary between the rival kingdoms of Chalukyas and Pallavas.

Swami Vidyaranya (‘Forest of Learning’) was the spiritual preceptor of the founders of the Vijayanagara Empire in the 14th century.

Press coverage of the meteorite hit in Russia has this quote by sci-fi master Larry Niven, "Dinosaurs aren't around.

"We believe in God because God has supposedly endowed us with a special faculty called sensus divinitatis, or the divine sense."

Good friend and fellow columnist Vithal C Nadkarni informed us here a couple of days back how the Dalai Lama brought the house down during ...

When your goddesses love to fly, don't put in the roof on their 'house'. That seems to be the logic of the stunningly superb roofless Chaus...

An awesome nine-hooded serpent carved on a single sheet of limestone dominates the ruins of the Buddhist Stupa unearthed at Kanaganahalli i...

The traveller has two birthdays. The first celebrates his birth and the second his rebirth!

Imagine Moscow's Red Square without Lenin. It's like imagining Trafalgar Square without Nelson. But there's a difference. The British Naval...