Leela Prasad: Interpreter of moralities

For many years Leela Prasad, associate professor of ethics at Duke University, had known Sringeri only as visitors know it: As the home of a 1,200-year-old Shankara Math and Sharada Temple. But in......

Dwarkapeeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati passes away

Dwarkapeeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati, once known as a 'revolutionary sadhu' for participating in freedom struggle, who spoke his mind on religious and political issues and......

King of the road! Karnataka minister travels 340 km daily to office and back

Karnataka Public Works Minister H D Revanna commutes a gruelling 340 km every day for work from his hometown to Bengaluru and back, but insists it has nothing to do with either astrology or......

When Adi Shankaracharya met the chandala...

Pavan K Varma, diplomat, writer and politician, embarks on a quest about Hinduism's great thinker's stay in Varanasi. IMAGE: The murti of Adi Shankaracharya at the SAT temple in California.......