White magic of exchange

THE Buddha and his disciples were once waiting for the boatman near the Ganges when a Yogi came by striding and gave them a pitying look only to walk on the water to cross the river. The bewildered di.. Read full story

Beating blue with white

The monsoon hasn't really begun. But the first few showers already seem to have triggered the annual ritual of sniffles and coughs. It's the change of season, says the family GP as he doles out fam.. Read full story

The Mahatma as CEO

The great photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White interviewed and photographed Mahatma Gandhi for LIFE magazine just a few hours before his assassination.
The unforgettable portrait of the Mahatma.. Read full story

A new night of Bo Moon

The Moon shines like a full-blown search-light on top of the mango trees. Of course it would. It's the night of the Bo Moon. What chance would mundane darkness have against the light of Buddha Po.. Read full story

Faucet drip, or monsoon?

Genome pioneer J Craig Venter sports a small salt-and-pepper goatee, appropriate for someone claiming to have synthesised life from off-the-shelf chemicals?
In contrast, look at the magnificent .. Read full story

Move over,machismo

Samuel Johnson once described first marriages as the triumph of imagination over intelligence'.Then he heard about the publisher who had remarried soon after the death of a wife to whom he had been un.. Read full story

Move over,machismo

Samuel Johnson once described first marriages as the triumph of imagination over intelligence'.Then he heard about the publisher who had remarried soon after the death of a wife to whom he had been un.. Read full story

Get back to here & now

An eight-year-old boy living in Vietnam, Thich Nhat Hanh saw the picture of the Buddha in a magazine. “I was impressed,” Nhat Hanh, now 83 and one of the world's most renowned Zen masters,.. Read full story

Become what you think

George Bernard Shaw said the world has two kinds of people. First category are those who blame their circumstances for what they are. Second are folks who get on in this world, people who don't believ.. Read full story

Muttar in the mattress

Sarah Jessica-Parker plays the thin-skinned princess in Once Upon a Mattress.Her mattress role may have morphed into Sex and the City,but in the musical she portrayed the life of privilege that come.. Read full story