SEEMA BURMAN writes about the playful faceoff between the villagers of Gokul and Barsana that devotees act out at a local templeThe followers of the Nimbarka and Gaudiya tradition give Radha a higher ...

SONAL SRIVASTAVA discovers at the Banke Bihari Temple in Vrindavana that devotees are discouraged from staring at the idol for too long in case they lose themselvesBanke Bihari Lal ki jai The crowd er ...

While selfhelp books are considered to boost a person s moral a piece of research now suggests that positive selfstatements in such books may actually leave people with low selfesteem and feeling wors ...

Some believe that when a person dies nothing remains that death is the end of personality Others believe in the continuity of life That the present incarnation is only a link in the chain of one s ent ...

Murugan Shiva s second born son is now no longer a southern exclusive discovers RANJENI A SINGH in the CapitalThe Sree Uttara Swami Malai Mandir perched on a hillock in R K Puram south Delhi is a regu ...

The gods on assuming various forms in this mortal world could in no way escape death They propitiated Ashutosha Shiva and requested his help in keeping death at bay Shiva took the crescent moon from h ...