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Jane Kay

MAHA SHIVRATRI: THE MOST MOMENTOUS DAY IN THE CALENDAR

March 6, 2021

Festivals of all kinds are days of celebration. However, religious festivals are also memorials. They are a reminder and a celebration of greatness, be that of an event or a person. To someone from the west, India seems like the very land of festivals! A cornucopia of colour, joy, music...

Prajapita Brahma: A spiritual pioneer like none other

January 16, 2021

In two days’ time, on 18 January, more than one million people, living in over 130 countries across the world, will spend their day quietly remembering a man whose life became an inspiration for them to change their own. Dada Lekhraj, later known as Prajapita Brahma, and affectionately referred to...

Extraordinary times require extraordinary people

July 25, 2020

At the time of writing, July 2020, the world has become a very different place. Human beings, creatures of sociability and conviviality, have been locked in their homes — some with their families and some totally alone. The reason for this is that a life-threatening virus, on a par with...