Center for Soft Power interviewed HH Sat Guru Amrita Súryánanda Mahá Rája on the occasion of International Yoga Day. Before the rest of the world, Portugal celebrated Yoga Day in …
Dr Urmila R Patil is an instructor of Sanskrit, Hinduism, and World Religions in the United States. She started studying Sanskrit at the age of 13 and says that the …
Jaisri M. Lambert is an Ayurveda practitioner in Surrey, BC, who has seen the Indian science of self-healing grow in Canada over the last few decades. She describes her affinity …
Inner World, an album fusing the Dalai Lama’s teachings and mantra will be released on July 6, his 85th birthday. The idea to produce the album was sown five years …
When Yuko Matoba played the Veena at the Perumchellur Sangeetha Sabha in Kerala on Republic Day this year, the audience was left spellbound. She played Mahā Ganapatim, a composition by …
T K V Desikachar, born on June 21st, was the son and student of Sri Krishnamacharya, and the founder of the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram. His father was one of the …
“We measure our lives in the tala of the year. Your childhood a peshkar, teenage years the kaidas. University, maybe relas. Starting a family, gats. The older years, the poetry …
Kaninika Mishra’s book The Indic Quotient – Reclaiming Heritage through Cultural Enterprise celebrates the efforts of ordinary Indians to reclaim their cultural heritage in ingenious ways. Instead of merely lamenting …
Russia’s connection to Vedic India has been long researched, with many commonalities between Slavic traditions, culture and philosophies and Indic ones. The research has been done largely by Westerners, says …
The European Heart Journal, a peer-reviewed journal of cardiology published by Oxford University says the Bhagavad Gita has lessons for these difficult times in an article titled ‘COVID-19 and the …
Aparna M Sridhar is a senior journalist, editor for Center for Soft Power (www.centerforsoftpower.org) and consulting editor for arts at IndicToday.