Archive for February, 2009

Advaniji on the Ganga ‘I am writing these lines at Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh, an idyllic ashram located on the banks of the Holy Ganga, with the verdant mountains of the lower Himalayas towering behind it. It is run by His Holiness Swami Chidanandaji Saraswati, whose work for the reform and renaissance of Hinduism I have [...]

Dasrath Manjhi, the man who bent a mountain to his will and connected his village to the outside world, died on August 17, 2007. He was over 70. In his life story of great poverty and greater will is the lesson that supermen don’t always come from an alien planet. It’s the kind of superhuman [...]


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