You may know that onions and garlic are botanical members of the alliaceous family (alliums) – along with leeks, chives and shallots. According to Ayurveda, India’s classic medical science, foods are grouped into three categories – sattvic, rajasic, and tamasic—foods in the modes of goodness, passion, and ignorance. Onions and garlic, and the other alliaceous plants are classified […]
Mantralogy is a New York-based collective owned by Saci-suta, Keli-lalita, Gauravani, and Rasa-acharya. They strive to stimulate thekirtana scene by promoting the bhakti lifestyle alongside their professionally produced albums and their clothing line. They are probably best-known for their releases of Gauravani and As Kindred Spirits’ Ten Million Moons and The Mayapuris Mridanga, but that’s only a small part […]
Here is a fictional conversation between a ‘heavy’ preacher – used to calling people mudhas, canines and other low descriptions, and is badly in need of reform – with a reformer preacher trying to strike a balance. Let us see how the ‘heavy’ and negative can remain without turning people off. One can easily take […]
