Vignette of a true India

Sivagiri Pilgrimage is a virtuous voyage to the memoirs of a Great Sage who descended himself into the level of common men to baptize them in the holy reservoirs of spirituality in terms of basic human existence. Says K.G.SURESH from the venue of the ...

Vastu Sastra calls for a harmonious living of human being with the Nature by knowing all its cosmological considerations. It is closely twined with the Vedantic concepts of the existences in micro and macro levels… Says Sree Pathe ...

For Sajeesh Kuttanellur a trip to Kudajadri is a mystic mission to be with the Nature plus a belief accepted from the soul. Narrations of the interesting episodes of his first Kudajadri trek…….. "Belief consists in accepting ...

Ashok Kumar Kartha shares his apprehensions over a matter concerning Religion and Science in the present social scenario of a plural India, after the vernacular media of Kerala published a recent speech of Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.  Inaugurating the valedictory function of the bicentennial celebrations of St.George’s ...

Originated in India, Yoga, a mystical experience and mental discipline, is now prevalent all over the world as an understanding of how to live to the optimum. We find yoga to bridge the gap between ourselves and anyone ...

Pottan Theyyam makes every one stand at their toe. Its prologue, Thottam paattu shoots questions towards the bosom of a State divided into irrational fragments of a void caste system. Rubina Shagin talks with a veteran Theyyam artist narrating the interesting incidents of ‘becoming’ and the ...

Is there any festival which has born out of jealousy? Indeed, it is here right in India. It is nothing but Holi, which is being celebrated today wherever an Indian community lives…Rajshri Iyer talks about the symbolic and transgressing aspects of the ...

Kerala is a State, where the celebration statement is equated with caparisoned elephants, conveniently brushing aside their basic rights to live.  At the same time, a ritualistic temple festival is being celebrated in Kerala annually without the participation of elephants and adoring the lower caste people as ...

Most of the festivals in India are either directly or indirectly related to the cultural past of the country. As the generation changes, it undergoes various evolutionary processes which sometimes may subject to immense changes from the original version and make it trail off the heritage track. ...

Belief and Disbelief “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending” saith the Lord. He also consoled his disciples “Let thy belief save thee”. Conflicts within were there, even before the ages have ...