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When the Prince is the Pauper

posted by Vineet Chander | 3:17pm Wednesday December 23, 2009

England’s Prince William spent a cold winter’s night  on the streets of central London last week. Along with others from the homelessness charity Centrepoint (which William is a patron and spokesperson of), the dashing young heir-to-the-throne slept in an old [...]

In the Water, Not of It

posted by Vineet Chander | 2:54pm Friday November 27, 2009

“Black Friday” — the day after Thanksgiving, which officially kicks-off the Christmas shopping season – doesn’t always bring out the best in humanbeings. Adults start to behave like unruly children, shoving and fighting one another over that last flat screen [...]

Mumbai 26/11: “Where Was God?”

posted by Vineet Chander | 12:58pm Thursday November 26, 2009

At some point during the Mumbai terror attacks, somewhere between the first shot fired on  November 26, 2008 and the tragic end on November 29, 2008, the Mumbai police officially declared a state of emergency. In the heart of downtown [...]

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Practicing Yoga in Prison Cell
By now, we've all read about the benefits of teaching yoga to children.  And despite the ongoing separation-of-church-and-state debate,  some schools do offer yoga classes to their students. Another group finding the benefits of yoga are prison inmates.  I ran across  this is a beautiful piec

posted 10:19:13am Feb. 10, 2012 | read full post »

The Rubin Museum screens The Bhagavad Gita
Yesterday, I attended a screening of a documentary entitled The Bhagavad Gita at the Rubin Museum in NYC.  Perhaps it's the years of reading distorted descriptions about Hinduism and its texts that tend to make me weary of these types of efforts, but I decided to hop on the subway and view the docu

posted 5:10:50pm Jan. 26, 2012 | read full post »

Comments from India on yoga in the West
Acknowledging the "outpouring of criticism" the Broad yoga piece received, the New York Times' India blog published a nice blurb earlier today, taking stock of some of the reactions in India to yoga in the West.  The last quote by Nivedita Joshi is spot on: http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/1

posted 1:58:42pm Jan. 17, 2012 | read full post »

How Poor Analysis Can Wreck Your Yoga
I’d like to thank the The New York Times for continuing to fuel the relevancy of the Hindu American Foundation’s Take Back Yoga campaign.  The latest piece in the Times Magazine, “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body” by William Broad, just adds more fodder to the campaign.  Broad’s latest has n

posted 1:20:41pm Jan. 07, 2012 | read full post »

Hindus, bindis, and cows in a car in Buenos Aires
I recently returned from an amazing five days in sunny Buenos Aires.  Both the city and its denizens are charming, warm, and welcoming.  As my husband and I strolled through the various neighborhoods, we found that Buenos Aires magically blended the best of Paris, Barcelona, Athens, and Mumbai.  

posted 1:25:37pm Jan. 05, 2012 | read full post »


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