Cross Connections

Nights seem more evanescent than days, even though the night passes without much occurrence. I cannot see the moon today. Possibly, there is...

Helen Hunt with her baby When I read about Helen Hunt getting a baby due to an ‘uplifting experience’, I adduced it must have been c...

Eid Mubarak... The term 'Kun Faya Kun' is not so much religious as mystical. It is about being and becoming... I read this bit...

The guru in Pakistan I stood in the sun, eyes blinking. On that dry Delhi summer afternoon of parched throats and heat without sweat, I ...

Where is Richard Gere now, and the Dalai Lama? A Nepali Buddhist nun who was gang-raped will be stripped of her religious habit and thrown o...

Baba died this morning of April 24, 2011. According to his own spiritual calculations, he was scheduled to depart earth in 2022. While I u...

  Yesterday, a group of cops was on a training session. It isn’t about new weapons, strategy, fitness or even how to be polite and citizen...

I got this note from a well-respected and well-placed member of one of our rightwing political groups. It was sent to ‘undisclosed recipient...

Islands It isn’t unusual. In fact, it is along expected lines. Swami Ramdev has bought a Scottish isle for about £2 million (Rs 16 crore) to...

Why are Indians saying Ramadan? It was always Ramzan for me. If I don’t do a thing in this month, why do I mind at all by what name it is ca...

Question: I am 45 years old. Is spirituality connected with sexuality? I accept sex as something that's spiritual but then why does soci...