Pitru Paksha 2026 will begin on 27 September and conclude on 10 October, a time when families pay homage to their ancestors through the Shradh rituals. Kusha grass, known for its sacred connotations, ...

Do you ever feel like you’re just going through the motions? Day in and day out, our lives are filled with routines and habits that, while efficient, can feel uninspired and mundane. These routines ...

This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and ...

Imagine two scenes. In the first, a person chucks a book casually on a table, leaving it open to the page she was reading, before walking into another room. In the second, she raises the book ...