APRIL 22, 2025
4 heads of brahma. - Times Life Bureau
In a world where we’re constantly faced with complexities—personal, professional, and existential—there’s a striking image that serves as a metaphor for how we approach life: Brahma, the creator, with his four faces. On the surface, it’s just an artistic choice, right? A divine representation meant to intrigue the mind. But in...
APRIL 22, 2025
Last Meeting
“Hari Anant, Hari Katha Ananta” — The divine is infinite, and so are the stories that flow from that infinity. Among those countless streams of sacred narrative, some remain hidden in the folds of regional retellings and oral traditions. These are not contradictions to the canonical Ramayana, but rather parallel visions — luminous echoes of the same eternal...
APRIL 22, 2025
Karma: Krishna.
अवश्याया भवितु द्विजेनि यात्या दुष्टरमवाप्निभावस्थिताः ।
avashyayan bhavitam dvijanih yathā dustaramavāp nibhaavasthitāṁ
("That which is bound to happen, O learned one, will surely take place; none can prevent it.")
It’s an age-old question that haunts even the strongest believers: If karma is real, why do good people suffer while the unjust thrive? Shouldn’t goodness be rewarded and wrongdoing punished?
The Bhagavad Gita...
APRIL 22, 2025
President Trump had hoped for some early wins after his tariff announcement on April 2—they are yet to come to fruition. Andrew Harnik - Getty Images
Despite early White House signals suggesting a trade deal with Japan was imminent, negotiations in Washington D.C. ended without an agreement, highlighting Japan's ongoing concerns and reluctance to concede ahead of domestic elections. Conflicting messages...
APRIL 22, 2025
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and President Donald Trump outside the White House. - Drew Angerer/Getty Images
President Donald Trump has hit out at Fed chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates faster.
Fresh fears about the central bank's independence hit stocks, bonds, and the dollar on Monday.
Wall Street figures said Powell might be Trump's...
APRIL 22, 2025
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a news conference at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters on April 9, 2025, in Washington.© Alex Brandon/AP
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fell victim to a thief while eating dinner at a downtown Washington, DC, restaurant Sunday night, the secretary confirmed Monday.
Noem, who was asked about the theft at...
APRIL 22, 2025
Pope Francis' body is seen in a coffin in the chapel of the Santa Marta residence at the Vatican, where the late pontiff resided and then died at the age of 88, on April 21, 2025. / Credit: Handout/Vatican News service
Pope Francis' funeral has been scheduled for 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. eastern) on Saturday at...
APRIL 22, 2025
Donald Trump (left) recently called Jerome Powell a ‘major loser’. - Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters
US stock markets, Treasury bonds and the dollar itself are sliding amid the tariff turmoil and Donald Trump needs a soft target. It was probably only a matter of time before he intensified his attacks on Jerome Powell, chair of the US Federal Reserve. It...
APRIL 21, 2025
Pope Francis celebrates Holy Mass privately on the altar of St. Ignatius of Loyola in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Dec. 8, 2020. / Credit: Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images
Pope Francis used his last will and testament to detail his wishes for where he would like to be interred following his death.
The...
APTIL 21, 2025
Doug Burgum, secretary of the interior, and President Donald Trump after signing an executive order about deregulation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. - Yuri Gripas/Abaca—Bloomberg/Getty Images
Following the election of President Donald Trump, U.S. multinationals wasted little time in purging mentions of the climate from their websites. Breakthrough Energy,...
