Stories
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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The eye of darshan
The Hindu concept of darshan means “divine revelation”, but it’s also about the multilayered ways in which we see the world around us. Adrian Plau explains how one image in a Panjabi manuscript relates to darshan, and why it’s so striking.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Hinduism / by Monier Williams.
Monier-Williams, Monier, Sir, 1819-1899.Date: 1877- Books
Hinduism reconsidered / edited by Günther D. Sontheimer and Hermann Kulke.
Date: 1989- Books
Hinduism and the tradition of Ayurveda / David M. Knipe.
Knipe, David MDate: 1989- Books
A popular dictionary of Hinduism / Karel Werner.
Werner, Karel.Date: 1997- Books
Historical dictionary of Hinduism / Bruce M. Sullivan.
Sullivan, Bruce M., 1951-Date: 1997