co-published collection

As prime minister of Britain, Churchill had ordered the preparation of an imperial strategy with the intention of balkanising India and tightening Britain’s post-war hold over her. The strategy envisaged two Pakistans, one in the west and the other in the east, both large...

Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, was born in the 15th century during a period of political and religious turmoil in India. Nanak founded a new religion, a synthesis of Hinduism and Islam, with the belief that God was one. He advocated a casteless...

Love That Knows No Limits Sri Ramakrishna is one of the greatest spiritual masters to have lived on this earth. The God-man of nineteenth-century India did not found any cult, nor did he show a new path to salvation. His message was his God-consciousness....

While yoga is accessible to all, the path to becoming a true yogi is known only to a few. An esoteric practice, it requires years of learning, dedication, willpower, and a thirst for connection with the universal consciousness and spiritual union with the Divine....

Rani Laxmibai was a courageous and independent personality, a capable ruler, an intelligent communicator, and defender of the faith. She was sagacious when it came to her people and astute in dealing with her enemies. It was because of these qualities that she became...

What does the Biblical story of Nathan and David say about effective communication skills? How do you identify the Raja Bhoj, the Gangu Teli and the Shekchilli in your office? What is the corporate equivalent of an Ashwamedha yajna? Drawing from sources as diverse...

Co Published with Harper Collins India. This book is a compilation of Devdutt Pattanaik’s articles on culture that break down the complex maze of stories, symbols, and rituals into clear systems and present the significance of myths in making cultures what they are. Book...

U. G. Krishnamurti's teachings pose a great challenge to the religious traditions all over the world. What UG said was outside the field of teachability. In point of fact, there was no teacher, no taught, and thereby no teaching. There was no symbolism, no...

Years ago Baba had said, “I am immortal, know this truth. And forever get experiences of my immortality.” Baba has kept his promise by appearing in his physical form before his devotees time and again whenever the need arose, to provide succour, comfort, and...

The First National Leader-Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak Gayatri Pagdi, full time writer, translator, editor and a professional ghost writer, has brought out the various shades of Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s personality as a social reformer, scholar and a national leader in her book, Lokmanya Tilak....

Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), born Narendra Datta, is India’s most celebrated and charismatic monk. Handsome, brilliant in studies, an image of contained strength, a lover of music and poetry, yet deep inside Narendra the seed of “search” had begun to sprout at an early age....

Translated into English by Prasenjit Sen, Sri Aurobindo: Jeebon O Jog was the first complete biography of Sri Aurobindo, written in Bengali, and approved by the Master. Sri Aurobindo was a scholar, a literary critic, a philosopher, a revolutionary, a poet, and a yogi....

Co-published with Harper Collins India. We live in times where people have extreme views. On the one hand, there are scholars who describe Shiva’s linga literally as a phallus and see all metaphoric meaning as an embarrassed apology of the uneducated. On the other...