Yama - Lord of Death and Justice, coming to claim a soul During World War II, the Allies captured many prisoners from the German army in France. Among the many captives detained at Château Ervance in France were two strange Russians. They did not speak German or Russian or any other language that was known either to their captors or their fellow prisoners. They could, in fact, only converse with one another. A professor of Slavonic languages, brought down from Oxford, could make nothing of...

Lord Yamraj and his entourage 01 ~ Painting courtesy of my friend Priti Vashisht Quinn Recently, a healthy young friend had a heart attack and suddenly passed on. Who could have even imagined that Yamraj (The Lord of death & Justice) would come to claim his soul so early? So many unfulfilled personal wishes, worldly dreams and desires, now all so inconsequential. His loving wife was inconsolable and cursed God for taking her beloved away from her. Did he belong to her or she to him? In fact,...

In 2011, our younger son, Pavit, came to me and said, "Dad, I don't like the work we do now as a family. I want to do something different." "Well then! What do you want to do?" I asked. "I don't want only to chase money and fame, I want to do good". He replied. "Doing good, that's a bit vague. What exactly do you have in mind?" "I want to make the world a better place through sports. I want more and more people to participate in sports." "When people do not play, they seem to waste away,...