A review of “Vedic Culture: The Difference it Can Make in Your Life,” by Stephen Knapp may be rather discomfiting, it is offered with the hope that some people, especially those busy writing their own books, will indeed pick this book up to ponder over their own fate in this world of maya, and the fate of the world in the grip of busy human bodies.
The Bhagavad Gita Comes Alive: A Radical Translation gets to the root of the Sanskrit-English translation conundrum and delivers the clearest, most universal and enlivening version of the Gita’s deep and profound wisdom ever written in the English language.
It is a yearly ritual, since 1947, to ask both the simple and obvious questions of what independence has brought to and means to India, as well as pose the…
Prof Ramesh Rao has been teaching communication in the United States since 1987. Before moving abroad for graduate studies, he worked in India as a banker, school teacher, and copy editor. He has authored books on Indian politics and society, intercultural communication, and ancient Indian communication traditions, and has published over a hundred op-eds in newspapers and magazines in India, the UK, and the US. He is currently the editor of India Facts, an online platform on India, Hindus, and Hinduism in global discourse.