2025

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Frances Moore Lappé (born February 10, 1944) is an American researcher. She is the author of 20 books including the 2.5-million-copy selling 1971 book Diet for a Small Planet, which the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History describes as "one of the most influential political tracts of the times." She was awarded…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Adi Shankara, also known as Adi Shankaracharya, was a great Vedic scholar and teacher (acharya) who lived in the eighth century CE. In his writings, he synthesised the Advaita Vedanta teachings of his time and offered a harmonising reading of the Shastras with liberating knowledge of the self at its core. In…

Dear Friends, Namaskaram! Masanobu Fukuoka (2 February 1913 – 16 August 2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide and pesticide-free cultivation methods from which he created a particular method of agriculture, commonly referred to as "natural farming" or…