Children of a lesser God

Mike Ward — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:24:58 +0100

So – athletics is the new football, and in Team GB depressed English fans finally have something to cheer about! Except of course for Team GB member Dwain Chambers.

soldiers' letters and emails home

Amaranatho — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:16:43 +0100

The Guardian, Saturday 2 December 2006

Dispatches

It is nearly four years since the invasion of Iraq and the bloodshed on the streets is worse than ever. As a timetable emerges for the withdrawal of British troops, we publish extracts from soldiers' letters and emails home, spanning the whole of the war, that reveal the realist of life on the frontlin.

Scaling the Heights

Mike Ward — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:27:30 +0000

Running a mile? Easy peasy. Probably just as well, too, for the tens of thousands who ran, three-legged walked, bounced, walked backwards or gorilla suited the Sports Relief mile last week. It’s hard to believe now, but there was a time when doctors said no human being could run a mile within four minutes. Then came Roger Bannister.

"To Give and Not to Count the Cost" - Lent Part 1

Mike Ward — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:24:40 +0000

The Palm Court at London’s Waldorf Hotel reopened just in time for Valentine’s Day. I know this, not because I was there – I could not even afford a side helping of waldorfs – but because, as an amateur chef (more Lucretia Borgia than Delia Smith), I have taken some interest in the infant terrible of the kitchen, Marco Pierre White.

Adding a Little Bit of Menace - Lent Part 2

Mike Ward — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:20:34 +0000

The famous actor Vincent Price once slipped in to a London cinema to catch up with one of his horror films. The film had started so no-one saw him slip in, particularly the two nervous girls sitting in front of him who instinctively put their hands over their eyes during Price’s more sinister moments on the screen.

Hiraeth (Aberfan remembered)

Mike Ward — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:16:28 +0000

Death of the Aryan Invasion Theory

Seeta Lakhani — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:38:19 +0100

White Tiger

Seeta Lakhani — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:34:27 +0100

The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga

A chatty murderer exposes the underbelly of India's tiger economy in this thrilling debut novel

Reviewed by David Mattin

Fashion-designer exploring ancient Hindu civilizations for her next line

Seeta Lakhani — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:23:08 +0100

Famed Croatian-American fashion-designer exploring ancient Hindu civilizations for her next line

Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed and renowned Vaishnava theologian Dr.
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Building Bridges with the Humanists

Seeta Lakhani — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:48:06 +0100

Lakhani and Cave on Hinduism and Humanism

Released Mar 24 2009

Jay Lakhani of the Hindu Acadmey and Peter Cave of the Humanist Philosophers discuss the relationship between Hinduism and Humanism

http://www.humanism.org.uk/documents/4421

Diwali: Barrack Obama Celebrates Hindu Festival of Light

Seeta Lakhani — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:42:38 +0100

Mr Obama became the first US president to personally take part in a White House ceremony for the festival of lights, lighting a diya (oil lamp) inside the executive mansion and bowing respectfully before a Hindu priest.

The festival will be officially marked in India and around the world on Saturday but celebrations are already underway.

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Guru Har Rai encouraged Herbal remedies and encouraged healing and caring for animals text from DEEP

Navleen Kaur — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:59:29 +0100

Guru Har Rai: Herbal Gardens at Kiratpur

Guru Har Rai played a major role in the development ofKiratpur in Panjab and turned it into another major centre for the Sikhs.Located on the banks of the Sutlej River, Kiratpur was developed by Guru jiinto a town of parks and gardens. He arranged for the planting of flowers andfruit trees all over the area. This created a wholesome environment, attractingbirds to the town and turning it into an idyllic place to live in.

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The Invention of Lying

Mike Ward — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:49:03 +0100

Imagine a world in which people are incapable of lying: they have to tell the truth. Pause for a moment and think about it…Would such a world be good? A happy world? Would you want to live there? Would you be allowed to live there? How many lies have you told today? Or this week? Were those lies justified?

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The House That James Built - The Sequel

Mike Ward — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:20:18 +0100

Sequels can be tricky things. How do you follow the story I wrote about recently of BBC Top Gear’s presenter James May building a house, a real full-sized house, made entirely out of Lego bricks? Well, planners and lawyers have the answer. "The wise man builds his house on the rock." Without planning permission? Demolish it! A house built of Lego? Sorry, it has to come down. And come down, it has.
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Crashgate: Cheating (is) For Dummies

Mike Ward — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:38:15 +0100
Drivers of Renault cars, look away now. Your car is about to hit the wall. Or not. Well, it will if you ask it to. Or to be more precise, if you are instructed to hit the wall by your boss (who conveniently for you, is not in the car, which you are currently driving a tad over the legal speed limit at 80mph). Be honest: would you disobey an order from your boss?
But, hey, this is Formula 1. Your boss tells you on the car radio to crash your ten million quid's worth of kit into the wall; you do it.
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The house that James built

Mike Ward — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:07:52 +0100
It's a Boy Thing. And some of us just don't grow up. If I can stick my head above the parapet and offer, with my tongue firmly in cheek, a few sexist observations, those endowed without a Y chromosome spend their formative years messing about with dolls, later of course graduating into womanhood to collecting shoes and handbags and going on endless Saturday shoe-shopping trips, visiting 237 shoe shops before finally realising that the pair of shoes they want is actually in the first shop they visited, by which time their long-suffering partner has lost the will to live and needs to get home for the football results. Those of us who the genetic lottery has given us our boyhood on the other hand messed about with Lego, building things and then - this was always the best bit - taking them apart. (Cue your family stories of the girls with Meccano sets and screwdrivers and all the rest of the Boy Stuff.)
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"Having a go"

Mike Ward — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:02:24 +0100

What do the parents of a tiny premature baby in Paraguay, certified dead and then heard crying when she was placed in her coffin for burial, have in common with Richard Cass, the father of the 19-year old backpacker Jamie Neale who was discovered alive after being lost in the Australian outback for 12 days? At first sight the answer is simple: both have experienced miracles after writing off for dead the life of a loved one – though sadly the baby did die a few days later when returned to hospital.
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The most famous man on the planet

Mike Ward — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:53:38 +0100
At the height of The Beatles phenomenon, John Lennon is reported to have said that they were more famous than Jesus. After I heard of the death of Michael Jackson, I googled the words “Michael Jackson” and, separately, “Jesus Christ” on my computer. There are some 40 million sites on the internet devoted to Jesus. Impressed?
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How literally do we take the Bible- do we punish Homosexuals? Dear Dr. Laura

Debbie Young-Somers — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:13:40 +0100

The following text is quite a famous email that I've received several times. I don't know if it actually happened, but I like it either way! Can we pick and choose (don't we do that anyway?) What guidelines do we have for picking and choosing laws?

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The diversity of creation

Debbie Young-Somers — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:41:43 +0100

The following is a beautiful text about how the diverse materials of the Tabernacle (the movable temple the Israelites travelled in the desert with) reflects the diversity God createsin the hope that all the diversity will live harmoniously:

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Children of a lesser God

soldiers' letters and emails home

The Guardian, Saturday 2 December 2006

Scaling the Heights

"To Give and Not to Count the Cost" - Lent Part 1

Adding a Little Bit of Menace - Lent Part 2

Hiraeth (Aberfan remembered)

Death of the Aryan Invasion Theory

White Tiger

The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga

Fashion-designer exploring ancient Hindu civilizations for her next line

Famed Croatian-American fashion-designer exploring ancient Hindu civilizations for her next line

Building Bridges with the Humanists

Lakhani and Cave on Hinduism and Humanism

Diwali: Barrack Obama Celebrates Hindu Festival of Light

Guru Har Rai encouraged Herbal remedies and encouraged healing and caring for animals text from DEEP

The Invention of Lying

The House That James Built - The Sequel

Crashgate: Cheating (is) For Dummies

The house that James built

"Having a go"

The most famous man on the planet

How literally do we take the Bible- do we punish Homosexuals? Dear Dr. Laura

The diversity of creation