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With soaring temperatures, city folks are increasingly taking to the swimming pool Ashwanth Narayanan, an IT professional, kicks off his day with a dive in the pool at his apartment, and swims for an hour at the least. He says, "These days, we wake ...

With news of alleged unwholesome doings in a major Indian religion, cricket, a Jataka comes to mind that combines stories normally associated with the two epics. The Jataka tells of Prince Well-Spoken and Prince Moon who have a young step-brother, ...

Writing this column spooks me sometimes as you know and it just happened again, the kind of coincidence that Id love to think of as meant. See, not surprisingly in Thailand, the Lord Buddha is very much on my mind. Especially, the Bodhisattva ...

Which is worse, doing something wrong or not doing the right thing when you should? Theres a view to be found in the Miga Jataka, Pali Canon No. 12, which is the story of the noble deer-king of Varanasi, writes Renuka Narayanan .

Between the mindless, heartless incidents this week came the news that the Princie diamond of Baroda/Golconda sold for US$40 million. It makes you think of the fabled Syamantaka Mani in the Vishnu Purana and Srimad Bhagavatam. Its name means ...

Its fabulous that saris are reportedly red hot again on ramps and at parties, for besides covering a multitude of shins, they let you be a samurai in the politest way, writes Renuka Narayanan .

First it blitzed chocolate hearts on February 14, then it was American Chocolate Week in the third week of March, it's chocolate Egg Day today, and any time now it will be World Chocolate Day on July 7. I know it's Easter because there are huge ...

If your youth is or was charmed as mine and that of a million others was by 'The Golden Road to Samarkand', you may enjoy recalling that this alluring poem is a hundred years old this year. Renuka Narayanan writes.

Knowing that people all over the world observe Mahashivratri, it's nice to remember why so many feel such immense attachment to Lord Shiva. There he looms in our lives like his own Himalayan abode, so here are a few reasons for Shiva-bhakti that I ...