Play Win-Win

Sujatha Rao makes a case for the necessity of the world coming together as one where everyone is a winner!

Face To Face With God

Cheryl Dabhi acts as a go-between to connect people to God, thereby solving their problems, as witnessed by Manisha Gawande

Meditation For Beginners

Darshan Goswami guides beginners on how to meditate and bring happiness in their lives by relieving stress and diseases associated with it.

Sowing The Seed

Navni Chawla explains how harnessing the power of a mantra can nurture our spiritual practice to flower into higher consciousness

JUST BE

You don't have to do anything to be aware, as you are awareness itself. You just have to see this reality clearly, says Ajay Kalra

Inversion Asana

To strengthen your limbs and relieve tension, perform the Downward-Facing Dog Pose along with Kamala Venkat

THE ALCHEMIST FROM ANDHRA

It is possible to create beautiful art out of scraps too

A HERO FOR THE HOMELESS

Donald Fernandez from Goa worked as a sales executive, and in his travels across Goa for promoting his products, he saw many homeless persons on the streets, at bus stops, and near churches and temples, wandering around with their dishevelled looks and shabby clothes.

TURNING NIRASHA INTO ASHA

Many of us just look at abandoned children but often do not know where to provide them shelter and security. However, some like Sunil Arora, the executive director of Bal Asha, take it up as a mission. In his case, the welfare of abandoned and destitute children was never on his mind when he was young.

Desi Diet Rocks

In this article, Naini Setalvad lauds the goodness of Indian food, to which the world is slowly waking up

Tips For Women To Become A Master Of Their Finances

Navni Chawla talks to some financial experts to understand the dire need for women to invest their money smartly and become a master of their finances without depending on anybody.

Listen to your body

Listen to your body Deepa Mahesh takes us through a step-by-step process of getting in touch with our body and understanding the messages it's trying to give us

Eco-friendly camping

Siddarth Varman from Neelankarai, Tamil Nadu, found the concept of campervans very inspiring.

In the business of doing good

Mr Rajiv Mehta from Mumbai is from a breed of businessmen who believe in taking forward the family values of doing good.

Warrior lunge

Stretch along with Kamala Venkat in Skandasana to improve flexibility and balance

Financial Emancipation Of Women

Navni Chawla talks to some financial experts to understand the dire need for women to invest their money smartly and become a master of their finances without depending on anybody.

Hop on the hobby horse

Hobbies have a way of keeping you happy, creative, and eternally young. So search the neglected corners of your mind, shake the dust off your overlooked hobbies, and delve into them with the full passion of your heart, says Jamuna Rangachari

The balancing act

In the third article of her series on work-life balance, Archana Raghuram talks about being passionate about your work as well as eschewing negative thinking

Experience effortless transformation

An encounter with Maitreya Dadashreeji puts Mitra Prawesh in touch with his Inner Divine

Hari bol

All apprehensions of facing life on returning home after her sojourn disappeared as soon as Gurjas Chahal started chanting God's name

Can Money Buy Happiness?

Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a certain degree of satisfaction, depending on how much wealth you have and how you spend it, says Darshan Goswami

The Four Stages Of Creative Thinking

H H Swami Mukundananda reveals why only a few get into the involved process of thinking deep and how we can develop this faculty

It’s teatime folks!

Try sipping some healthy herbal teas to keep those sinuses clear this monsoon, advises Naini Setalvad

Mentor to a million

Pradeep Krishnan talks to Jaya Kishoriji on the importance of inculcating the invaluable lessons from the scriptures to enhance our life journey

The Circle of Life

A new breed of innovators, who are inspired by nature, is growing across the globe to deal with the mounting waste problem created by present day hyper-consumerism.

Joy Of Missing Out

Ajay Kalra revels in the joy of just being in the now and not striving to do something

Handmade solution to reverse manmade pollution

Can you guess the number of trees required to produce all the paper in the world? The figure, no doubt, would be mind-boggling. Worldwide, the production of paper is over 300 million tons per year, and 90 per cent of it is wood pulp and mill-made. The wood pulp and paper-producing industry is also responsible for disastrous environmental changes, some of which are the depletion of non-renewable resources and rise of greenhouse gases. To make amends, it developed an alternative for paper without cutting treesthe most eco-friendly handmade paper in the world, made of cotton rag waste and plant fibres.

YOGA: Cat-Cow combination

To revitalise your brain and body, join Kamala Venkat in a gentle stretch inspired by our animal friends

Swimming through life's problems

We keep looking around for inspiration when there are many around us who we can look up to or emulate. One of them is Vishwas, a true hero. He has amazingly taken on life despite facing what many would call challenges. His father, Satyanarayana Murthy, was a clerk in the agriculture department in Kolar. Sixteen years ago, when Vishwas was watering the cemented portions of the home that they were building, he suddenly lost balance and fell on live electric wires. His father rushed to save him from being electrocuted but lost his life. After being in a coma for two months, Vishwas recovered. However, he lost his hands.

Beyond science and spirituality

Kusum Rasala meets her guru Sri Sri Sri Guru Viswa Sphoorthi after going through a personal tragedy and finds that, subsequently, her life has become meaningful and complete