When vastu shastra comes to IIT

The decision to introduce vastu shastra as a part of the architecture curriculum at IIT-Kharagpur has polarised architects in the country. Nikita Puri reports. Illustration: Dominic......

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The New Age guru

From reaching out to the Jat community and requesting them to not harm the country's assets to trying to mediate on behalf of the women protesting against Shani Shingnapur temple authorities, Sri......

Is yoga a 'Hindu' practice?

Just as there is no separate Christian science and Hindu science and Muslim science, there is just science, there is just yoga. The enlightened masters themselves did not bind their teachings in......

Meet India's 10 most renowned yoga gurus

Yoga has been an intrinsic part of the Indian ethos for over 5,000 years. In December 2014, the United Nations recognised that Yoga ‘provides a holistic approach to health and......

Nilekanis' most ambitious project to teach 200 million children

Nandan Nilekani and his wife Rohini are trying to improve education across India using interactive computer games and software to teach children via smartphones.  Image: Rohini's involvement......

Wind down but don't wind out

Let's suppose you are a CEO and want to do a quick check of the stress level of your executives.Circulate these ten statements among them to see how well they look after themselves. The scoring......

Can the Kamasutra be patented?

Love, as the saying goes, knows no boundaries. And neither do books on love, as we are about to find out.Kamasutra, the fourth century ancient Indian work, compiled by sage Vatsyayana, is an......

Love Guru: Moronic humour

For the past few months, our e-mail boxes have been bombarded with messages from a self-styled Hindu religious leader, Rajan Zed, who has launched a one person crusade against the mighty power of a......

Go Across The Universe!

There are two kinds of people in this world,' Mia Wallace told Vincent Vega in an unshot scene from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. 'Elvis people and Beatles people.' Across The Universe is a......

Beatles' haven to house Delhi's street kids?

Back in the late 1960s, before Bollywood tunes and curry shops entrenched themselves in the UK, India was still something of a novelty. It was then that the West's greatest band -- the Beatles --......

Lynch to raise $7 bn for taking TM to US schools

David Lynch, the Oscar-nominated, director of Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Dune, Wild at Heart and Lost Highway -- movies that have a cult following worldwide -- plans to raise $7 billion over the......