REWIND: India in the last 24 hours

Here's a recap of the events from the past 24 hours. Girls practice Garba dance ahead of the Navratri festival in Ahmedabad. All Photographs: PTI Photo Former Union minister P Chidambaram with......

Mata Amritanandmayi honoured at NY university

Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, commonly known as the hugging saint, was conferred an honorary doctorate in humane letters at a special ceremony by the State University of New York at its campus in......

The uniqueness of Amma

Mata Amritanandamayi (Mother of Immortal Bliss), 'the hugging saint', grew up and attained fame in a village not far from my ancestral home. But I met her for the first time in Washington, DC with......

Was there a plot to kill Amma?

Was the knife-wielding stranger who came to Amritapuri, the temporal and spiritual headquarters of Mata Amritanandamayi, planning to attack the revered spiritual leader?Police officials, who......