Book Review: Seven Secrets to Raising a Happy and Healthy Child

By Joyce Golden Seyburn (1998) Berkely Publishing Group Rs. 550 (Paperback), 244 pages This review was first published in the magazine Life Positive, 2005 Baby Care through Ayurveda With the birth of my son Achintya, my first-born, I felt I was the world’s first woman to experience motherhood and its challenges. While I had the … Continue reading Book Review: Seven Secrets to Raising a Happy and Healthy Child

Book Review: What Animals Can Teach Us About Spirituality?

Inspiring Lessons from Wild and Tame Creatures by Diana L. Guerrero (2003) Corpus Collosum Learning Pvt. Ltd; Price: Rs. 195.00; 153 pages (This article was first published in the magazine Life Positive, 2005) In the tsunami that occurred in December 2004, that devastated South Asia, an extraordinary observation was that there was evidence of few … Continue reading Book Review: What Animals Can Teach Us About Spirituality?

Gayatri-The Highest Meditation ©Sangeeta Venkatesh

Book Review By Sadguru Sant Keshavadas (1978) Motilal Bandarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd., Delhi; Price Rs.95.00; 148 pages Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita says, “Among the chanted mantras or poetic metres, I am the Gayatri mantra” (Bhagavad-Gita 10:35). Such is the status given to this mantra, which is believed to be the sound incarnation of the … Continue reading Gayatri-The Highest Meditation ©Sangeeta Venkatesh

Book Review -Stolen Harvest © Sangeeta Venkatesh

Are we losing the genetic diversity of our crops?  As a student of Biotechnology in the years, 1986-88 at the M. S University, Baroda and I remember being wide-eyed and awe-struck when we studied how genes could be manipulated, cut, spliced, cloned to achieve the desired result. It was around that time that the genes … Continue reading Book Review -Stolen Harvest © Sangeeta Venkatesh