The telephone poles, windows of cyber cafes and restaurants, and walls of the ashrams are plastered with signs advertising every form of yoga imaginable -- from the traditional, standardized and internationally renowned Iyengar tradition to obscure, mysterious offerings for "Tantra, Yantra and Mantra." The yoga...
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Facebook -- A useful tool for the present, but not a doorway to the past “Don’t look at the name, look at the face. You won’t recognize the name, but look deeply into the eyes. You will recognize them,” I am about to write to my...
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This article has been published on Huffington Post, here. "Before we leave, can I please have one photo with you?" he asks while taking a camera out of his pocket and handing it to his friend. "Of course," I say and I start to move nearer...
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This article was originally published as "Ganga Beckons" in Tathaastu Magazine, click here to read the article with photos. This article has also appeared on Huffington Post, here. A sadhu[1] sits, his lean body draped in a single, worn scrap of orange-ish brown cloth, swaying every so...
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Background Milieu Control Mystical Manipulation Demand For Purity Confession Sacred Science Loading the Language Doctrine Over Person Dispensing of Existence These are the 8 criteria to ascertain whether a situation or group is engaged in the insidious act of “brainwashing”, as outlined by Robert Jay Lifton,...
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As the warm air flowed into the car through the heating vents, I felt the muscles of my arms and legs slowly release their death grip on my bones. I began to settle comfortably into the soft seat, a flannel blanket wrapped around my legs,...
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Suraj and Sagar – Pawns in the Hands of Nature or Clay to be Molded by Nurture? Suraj and Sagar. Sun and Ocean. The orphan sons of a gardener from Nepal who came to India to find work to feed his family. Their mother died in the...
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