The Swami, who had been in fragile health before and also during his Camp Taylor days, became even more indisposed upon reaching San Francisco. Alice, who had returned with him from the retreat , went …
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Preface and Dedication
My earliest memories of Narmada are related to the occasional travels our family had from Bhopal, where we lived, to Pachmarhi, the scenic hill-station in the Satpuras, about 200 km away. For that we …
Celebrating Wodehouse : An Aficionado’s short appraisal of the Master’s works and a Personal Recommendation of 45 books.
The year that is about to end also marks half a century of the demise of twentieth century's greatest comic prose writer and master stylist Sir Pelham Grenville (P.G.) Wodehouse. He had authored …
Samuel Smiles and his ‘Victorian Bible’ – ‘Self-Help’
In 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' there comes an episode in early 1880s, when Sri Ramakrishna asked his young disciple Rakhal (who he considered his spiritual son, and who later became Swami …
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The House-Captain
As the new capital of Madhya Pradesh was announced in 1956, there followed soon the development of a new township with its well planned roads, parks and government residential quarters that posed a …
The forgotten and fascinating tale of William Henry Sleeman
I have always had a considerable admiration for at least a few distinguished Englishmen who came to this country, particularly in early period of colonialism, because of the sheer magnitude of their …
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