This critique of the guru-shishya system it seems to confuse the profound, time-tested tradition with its modern distortions and misinterpretations (“How the traditional guru-shishya system undermined ...

Chanting mantras, practising yoga and meditating —that is how students will begin their day in NDMC schools while teachers impart education following the classical Guru-Shishya model. This is part of ...

Shinjini Kulkarni celebrates ganda bandhan, embracing guru's legacy. Shinjini Kulkarni with her gurus Jai Kishan Maharaj and Deepak Maharaj and aunt Mamta Maharaj Kathak dancer and late Pt Birju ...

A recent Scroll article argues that India’s guru-shishya tradition undermined critical thinking. As someone who has taught ayurveda for over 25 years, I must respectfully disagree. The problem isn’t ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

Once a former president of the World Bank asked me, “Gurudev, we do so many projects, but many of them do not reach the kind of success we see in your Art of Living service projects. What’s the secret ...

Twenty-five third graders sit in a government school classroom, their eyes fixed on the new teacher at the front. "Can someone come and write mata-pita (mother-father) on the board?" she asks. The ...

The Guardian has reported that India's cultural tradition of guru-shishya (disciple) method of learning classical music and dance has drawn claims of sexual abuse. Read the full story HERE. In ...

For 2024–25, a total of 2,371 applications were submitted - 1,750 for renewal and 621 fresh requests. NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Culture has placed more than 300 cultural organisations, those that ...