Tag: Mother

Kavita Pillay: Well, I guess the short answer is yes. But the long answer is that early in my life I was very exposed to Malayalam which is the language of the south Indian state of Kerala where my family is from. Actually when I was born — we were living in the US– one of my mom&rs...

A historic milestone was achieved when as many as 14 engineering colleges in eight states decided to offer courses in regional languages. This revolutionary step is going to change the education landscape of our country. On the first anniversary of the National Education Policy (NEP), PM Narendra...

According to Google, almost 1.5billion people speak English in the world in 2023. A greater number would probably speak English to some capacity, even saying “Hello. How are you? I’m fine thanks. And you?” just like any Cambodian children with working vocal cords would greet any fo...

A few days ago, I stopped into a kitchen gadget store, looking for a dough blender. I was able to find one, but by all appearances, there seemed to be just one model available for sale. I was hoping for an opportunity to do some comparison shopping. I took the item to the sales counter and asked ...

When Lina Medina was five, her belly started to grow. Her parents were afraid it was a tumor so they took her to the village Shaman for advice. It was 1939 and they lived in a tiny village in Peru. The Shaman thought it might be a tumor, too. It seemed to be growing fast so he told them t...

The Vietnamese tradition of worshipping Mother Goddesses has been recognised as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, and so this collaborative project — curated by Company,Place — pays homage to the female deities who manage the skies, rivers, forests and moun...

Ayahuasca is known to be a very powerful plant medicine, and the stories you may have heard about it can be intimidating to say the least. I, myself, had first heard of ayahuasca about 10 years ago and wondered why anyone would put themselves through such an extreme experience. They say “you g...

Identical people can be entirely unrelated Call it vain, but we give a great deal of attention and care to the way that we look. The way individuals look is an integral aspect of their identity and tells us a great many things about them. Our appearance, our physical traits, are markers of race, ...

I remember vividly the first time that I saw Amma, the hugging saint, over a decade ago. Born Mata Amritanandamayi, Amma (which means “mother”) travels the world (or did until covid) giving people hugs. The experience is called darshan, or vision of God. A friend had suggested I ...

Astrology is a symbolic language, using luminaries, planets, fixed stars and asteroids, to represent the physical, emotional, mental, and psychological realities on Earth. Their mathematical distances from a geo- (Earth-) centric perspective are measured in degrees along the ecliptic (Zodiac) and ho...