One of India’s most iconic and influential spiritual personalities – Swami Vivekananda – born as Narendranath Dutta, was a disciple of Ramakrishna Paramhamsa, an ardent devotee of Goddess Kali. Representing India at the Parliament of the World’s Religions on September 11, 1893 at the Art Institute of Chicago, Swami Vivekananda, began his speech by addressing the audience as “Sisters and brothers of America!” His words echoed compassion and universal brotherhood. […]

It is very early in the morning and people in the small houses next to the hospital are awake. Patients who are undergoing treatment in the hospital and their families stay here. If you listen closely, you can hear a faint cry of a child. She has been crying since long. At times, she stops and you can hear her mother’s voice calling out her name “Sayani’ and asking her […]

  “My name’s Rachael. I need your help,” Rachael Farrokh says, short of breath in a desperate plea for life in a video she posted to YouTube. Farrokh, 37, weighs roughly 40 pounds and has suffered from a severe form of anorexia for more than 10 years. She lives in San Clemente, California, and says her last chance of survival is treatment at a hospital across the country. “In order […]