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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Storyteller and theatre person Craig Jenkins talks about how an episode from the Mahabharata empowered teenagers in London.
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CHENNAI,
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Why are we caught in this cycle of birth? How did we get our karma? Why do we continue in Samsara? Since such questions have prevailed from time immemorial with no definite answers to the root cau...
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CHENNAI,
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The Upanishads, the Brahmasutra and the Bhagavad Gita form the core texts (dharsanas) of Vedanta and are known as the Prastanatraya. The study of Vedanta has given rise to many schools of thought...
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CHENNAI,
May 6, 2013
What is the need to know the Vedas, one may ask. The path shown by the Vedas (Veda Marga) tries to fill the lacuna between the perceptible and the unseen. Moreover, the Vedas are the essence of Sa...
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HYDERABAD,
April 22, 2013
Azaan International School students steal the show at the programme to felicitate those who memorised the Quran
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VISAKHAPATNAM,
April 12, 2013
The rich Telugu traditions came alive at the Ugadi celebrations organised by the District Cultural Council at Dr. Y.V.S. Murthy Auditorium on the premises of Andhra University College of Engineeri...
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VIJAYAWADA,
April 12, 2013
Sri Vijaya Nama Ugadi was celebrated in Krishna district with pomp and gaiety on Thursday. People thronged temples to pray for prosperity during the year.
District Collector Buddha Prakas...
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CHENNAI,
March 19, 2013
Lord Krishna’s leelas are endearing, and yet despite His simplicity, He is not fully understood. Liberation is vouchsafed to the one who can understand His avatara and leelas. Mahavishnu...
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March 17, 2013
Closed to outsiders for more than two centuries, the group finally opens up
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February 14, 2013
The conference on the Ramayana captured its multifarious aspects and enduring impact.
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January 6, 2013
Islamiya Library encourages discussions on life and is open to anyone who wants to learn more about Islam
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CHENNAI,
November 25, 2012
Life’s attractions tempt with their glitter and unless one has the discrimination to sift between the right and the wrong one is sure to be led astray. Sacred texts and scriptures impress on us th...
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Cambridge (Massachusetts),
September 20, 2012
A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in a...
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Hyderabad,
April 24, 2013
A total of 5,977 pilgrims from Andhra Pradesh were selected for Haj 2013 through ‘qurrah’ (draw of lots) on Tuesday. They are in addition to the 1,345 pilgrims already selected under the two rese...
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CHENNAI,
April 17, 2013
There is no medicine for the disease called desire. Desire for power is especially hard to shake off, because power, once tasted, only increases the desire for more power. Power is intoxicating. <...
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VISAKHAPATNAM,
April 12, 2013
Sri Ramadasu Charitam dance drama presented by 101 students of Chaitanya English Medium School of BC Road, Gajuwaka, was the highlight of the “Ugadi Vedukalu” organised by VUDA at Gurajada Kalaksh...
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March 29, 2013
While some churches began service on Thursday, most others began special prayer sessions in the morning
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CHENNAI,
March 17, 2013
The Bhagavad Gita expounds on renunciation (sanyasa) as a state of mind which liberates an individual from the cycle of birth and one which is attained through self-control and a steady prac...
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February 16, 2013
The Mahabharatham is back on the small screen. Directed by filmmaker Suresh Krissna, it will be telecast from Sunday
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Mangalore,
February 2, 2013
The second edition Kannada translation of the Koran was released in Mangalore on Friday amid controversies and protests regarding the attendance of Pejawar Seer and the district Sahitya Parishat p...
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WASHINGTON,
January 5, 2013
Tulsi Gabbard (31), the first Hindu ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives took her oath of office on Thursday on the Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu scripture
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Madurai,
October 24, 2012
EVENT In its 15th year, the Chinmaya Madurai’s Gita chanting competition has created a record with 10,000-plus registrations in and around the city, writes SOMA BASU
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HYDERABAD,
September 8, 2012
M. Krishna, a railway employee, rewrites Bhagavad Gita in a dialect that does not have a literary tradition
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