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Italian author Antonio Rigopoulos arrives in Prasanthi Nilayam in November 1985. Antonio Rigopoulos lives in Venice Italy. He is a Professor by profession in the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice teaching Sanskrit and Indian Religions and Philosophies. He did his MA and PhD in at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1985, young Italian researcher Antonio Rigopoulos conducted …
English Anthropologist Colin Turnbull arrives in Sri Ramanasramam in 1949/50. Colin M. Turnbull (23 November 1924 – 28 July 1994) was born in Harrow, England and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. After serving in the British Royal Volunteer Reserve during World War II, he returned to Oxford and finished his education. Turnbull ultimately received his …
Sir Mark Tully : The Christian who believes in Karma. Sir Mark Tully obituary (The Guardian, Sunday, 25th January, 2026) BBC correspondent and author whose sensitive reporting from India made him a revered public figure in the subcontinent. In 2017 Mark Tully was making a documentary for the BBC World Service to coincide with the …
From The Guardian, Ion Trewin writes on Friday, 27th November, 2009. Guardian journalist turned author who wrote a bestselling account of his travels in the Sahara desert. Geoffrey Moorhouse, who has died aged 77, was a Guardian journalist of deep integrity who moved out of daily newspapers to write books on a variety of themes, …
Series: Westerners in India Richard Wright’s Excellent Adventure. Trailers 1 to 5… Richard Wright’s Excelllent Adventure 00:00 Intro 00:05 Clarence Richard Wright. 9th December 1911 ~ 9th January 2002 00:14 In 1935, Yogananda returned to India for a last visit with his great guru, Sri Yukteswar Giri 00:17 “I sailed from New York on June …
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Series: Westerners in India Scot Bill Aitken at his partner’s (The Maharani Prithwi Bir Kaur of Jind – The Phulkian Dynasty) Delhi house in 1972 “I’m a traveller who writes not a writer who travels.” – Bill Aitken. Author and travel writer Bill Aitken (William McKay Aitken) spent seven ascetic years at the Mirtola Ashram, founded by Sri Yashoda …
Series: Westerners in India Mystic India ~ Through the Art of Two Hungarian Painters
Series: Westerners in India Maximiani Portas had long been attracted to the Orient by the poet Leconte de Lisle. Even in her early teens she had been thrilled by his evocation of the deified Aryan hero of India and the pride of the privileged godlike race: “Rama, son of Dasharatha, whom the Brahmins honour, Thou …
Series: Westerners in India In 1960, when she was in her late twenties, the poet Joanne Kyger (1934 – 2017) joined Gary Snyder in Japan. From there, the two traveled to India, together with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, where they met the Dalai Lama. Below are the entries from Kyger’s journal, written in India in 1962. January 4 Travelling …
Part Four of Glimpses of the Divine by Birgitte Rodriguez The Book of Brighu (The Sathya Sai Compendium ~ compiled and edited by Brian Steel) Ancient prophecies written on palm leaves. Copies and expert pundits to translate them are available in a few places in India, including Bombay and Poona, and in Kathmandu in Nepal. …
Chapter 3, Sai Baba : The Ulitimate Experience by Phyllis Krystal The Book of Brighu (The Sathya Sai Compendium ~ compiled and edited by Brian Steel) Ancient prophecies written on palm leaves. Copies and expert pundits to translate them are available in a few places in India, including Bombay and Poona, and in Kathmandu in Nepal. …
Chapter 18, Vision of Sai by Rita Bruce The Book of Brighu (The Sathya Sai Compendium ~ compiled and edited by Brian Steel) Ancient prophecies written on palm leaves. Copies and expert pundits to translate them are available in a few places in India, including Bombay and Poona, and in Kathmandu in Nepal. “Maharshi Bhrigu …
Series: Westerners in India The following is an expanded and more compressive article that is sourced from Ashrams of India Volume 2. In 1911, Frank Humphreys, a policeman stationed in India, became the first Westerner to discover Sri Ramana. He wrote articles about him which were first published in The International Psychic Gazette in 1913. Sri Ramana only became relatively …
Series: Westerners in India The following is an expanded and more compressive article that is sourced from Ashrams of India Volume 2. In 1911, Frank Humphreys, a policeman stationed in India, became the first Westerner to discover Sri Ramana. He wrote articles about him which were first published in The International Psychic Gazette in 1913. Sri Ramana only became relatively …
Series: Westerners in India Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s (1926 – 2011) early Western devotees and visitors to the ashram from the 1930s onwards… From The Hagiographer and the Avatar (2021) by Antonio Rigopoulos “Foreign interest in the guru of Puttaparthi grew rapidly, especially during the period 1965-1975. Through their testimony and books, a few select Westerners, primarily from …
Series: Westerners in India Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s (1926 – 2011) early Western devotees and visitors to the ashram from the 1930s onwards… From The Hagiographer and the Avatar (2021) by Antonio Rigopoulos “Foreign interest in the guru of Puttaparthi grew rapidly, especially during the period 1965-1975. Through their testimony and books, a few select Westerners, primarily from …
For many, the journey East – as depicted in new BBC drama ‘The Serpent’ – ended in disillusionment and worse. By Mick Brown 3 January 2021. In 1961, the American beat poet Allen Ginsberg, along with his partner Peter Orlovsky, set off for India in search of enlightenment. Travelling to Paris, then Tangier, Israel, and Kenya, …
A Tribute to Jyotipriya (Dr Judith M. Tyberg) May16, 1902 – October 3, 1980. Text by Mandakini, Photo layout and design by Anie Nunnally. “By heaven’s illuminings one perceives her to be a bearer of the Truth.” Rig Veda, 111.61.6 Hymn to Usha ONCE Jyotipriya asked the great Sanskrit pandit Kapali Sastri if she could …