Sir M. Monier-Williams was born at Bombay in 1819. He was a disciple of Prof. H.H. Wilson and was awarded the Boden Professor Chair in 1843. He is renowned for being the author of a ...

Pandit N. Ramachandra Bhatt has devoted his whole life to research and bring to light Shaivagama literature. His view of Shaivism is thus based on the ancient tradition of ritualistic performance and literary composition, founded ...

Panditraj Jagannath was a great Sanskrit scholar and critic. He was born in South India in a Tailang Brahmin family. After the completion of his studies he came to Delhi to get some stipend and ...

Pravin S. Rana (b. 1978), B.Sc. (BHU), M.T.M., Ph.D. (Institute of Tourism Studies, Lucknow University), was a Visiting Faculty member in the Dept. of History of Art & Tourism Management at Banaras Hindu University; and ...

Purnima Zweers was trained as a social worker and teacher in her native country Holland. In 1985 she left for India where she studied yoga and vedanta. She made many pilgrimages in India as well ...

Ram Alexander came to his Guru - Sri Anandamayee Ma - in 1972, when he was 23 years old. At her suggestion he remained with her for the next 10 years until her passing in ...