Sri Sri Gaura Gadadhar During Mahaprabhu’s time, three deities of Him appeared and one of them (Gaura Gadadhara) is at Champahatti. This very old deity was worshipped by Dvija Vani Nath, brother of Sri Gadadhara Pandita. Sri Sri Gaura-Gadadhara at…
“O king, as Hemamali enjoyed his wife, Kuvera began his usual worship of Lord Shiva in his palace. Soon enough he realized the flowers for the midday puja were missing. Unable to perform this important upachara (offering) Kuvera got angry…
Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication. The three Ts – yes of course – but CTG allows one to go with the flow…
In a recent paper, Julian Savulescu and I go further into the details of the Right Not to Know, setting out the scope for a degree of compromise between the two central camps. As we argue, the more plausible view…
The Chaturmas period begins in the month of Ashadha (June-July) and ends in the month of Kartika (October-November). Chaturmas means “four months”, which is the duration that Vishnu sleeps. This year it falls from 24th July 2021 to 19th Nov…
Yet, this was my first time hearing open deliberations in the Court of Protection. It was a fascinating and thought-provoking experience. The case was (though I did not know it beforehand) related closely to issues that I have written about…
Nineteenth-century physiologist Johannes Müller, for example, argued for vitalism and defended the notion that the activity of the nervous system would never be reducible to physical facts. In Chapter 2 of my book, I describe Müller’s influential views and detail…
Sridhara Pandit was a resident of Navadwip. He used to live at the northern extremity of Mayapur and to the southeast of the Chand Kazi’s Samadhi, in the place which is now known as Sridhara Angan. -Qouted in Srimad Bhagavatam…
Still, we have found that some agents (including ours) recognize that a strong academic reputation is an asset for authors when they approach trade editors, and are willing to work with academics to find an appropriate balance. Trade authors often…
I’d learnt this and other tricks through a few years of writing wide-ranging essays on neuroscience for my publication The Spike: often I’d write about cool new work that was at the very fringes of my expertise – like breakthroughs…
So bearing the facts about publishing in mind helps to rebut one common argument against cancellation: it doesn’t suppress ideas. It changes who publishes them, not whether they are published. But the facts about publishing also helps rebut a different…
Narration from the Brahma-Vaivarta Purana Jyeshtha Shukla Ekadashi Vyasadeva replied, “You should fast without drinking even water on the Ekadashi that occurs during the light fortnight of the month of Jyeshtha (May-June) at the time of Mithuna Sankranti when the…
Mandating vaccination can be ethical if it is both necessary and proportionate. A mandate is not necessary if there are less intrusive means of effectively increasing uptake, such as persuasion and incentives. The problem is that less intrusive means may…
As we have discussed in other written evidence submissions on mandatory vaccination and on Covid-19 vaccination certification, vaccination requirements can be ethically permissible and compliant with human rights law. While vaccination requirements would likely interfere with individuals’ rights to private…
