Author: Seema Anand Chopra

From Stone age to a history of 3000 years was enough reason to explore ‘whatever was left’ of the ‘Manor House with a moat’ belonging to Saxingherstes family of 5 AD and no wonder that the present day name still has a ring to it! We were at the beautiful Sissinghurst Castle Gardens, enveloped in […]

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A month after visiting Bhaktivedant Manor temple in England, which is the earliest amongst the 10,000 plus temples of ISKCON worldwide, we set out to unravel the spiritual quest of the 1960’s celebrity Rock band group member Beatle George Harrison who joined the ISKCON in Britain and donated this Manor to them. Beatles experienced transcendental […]

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Since ancient times, across borders of religions and continents the festivities seem to have spiritual and mystical alignments to the winter months. The ‘Time-wheel’ seems to carry the festive season that turns towards December and the scintillating sounds and lights of Christmas, Churches, Christmas Trees and Gifts celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ is a […]

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