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Intro I present a brief account of a marriage I attended in a Haryana village  Rajiv K. Saxena A rural marriage in Haryana      A couple of years ago, we moved from New Delhi to Sohna, Gurugram. People wishing to escape the crowded areas of Delhi often move either …

Dear Readers, my latest book, “The Hilltop Temple” has been published (Sept 2025). This book is a fiction novel with an underlying aim of introducing the readers to the basic ideas in various Darshanas (Philosophies) that evolved in Ancient India over thousands of years. In his Foreword to this book, …

Dear Friends, my next book, entitled “The Hilltop Temple,” is scheduled for release later this month. The book is a fiction novel, with an underlying purpose of introducing the readers to ancient Indian Darshanas (Philosophies). I am enclosing the cover pages of the book. The foreword to this book was …

Love is a great enigma. Young people are washed away with the strength of feelings and emotions that seem to take over ones personality. It is like an acute fever that rises and falls in due course of time. From biological point of view, love and sex are amongst the …

Recently (starting Jan 22, 2025) I wrote a series of posts on the portal Linkedin.  These posts went viral and attracted more than 2 lac reads and thousands of likes.  I am archiving these posts on www.geeta-kavita.com  for all readers.  Rajiv Krishna Saxena In the thick of career After joining …

Recently (starting Jan 22, 2025) I wrote a series of posts on the portal Linkedin.  These posts went viral and attracted more than 2 lac reads and thousands of likes.  I am archiving these posts in www.geeta-kavita.com  for all readers.  Rajiv Krishna Saxena Returning to India Both I and my …

Recently (starting Jan 22, 2025) I wrote a series of posts on the portal Linkedin.  These posts went viral and attracted more than 2 lac reads and thousands of likes.  I am archiving these posts on www.geeta-kavita.com  for all readers.  Rajiv Krishna Saxena {ads1] US Citizenship and decision to return …

I started dhyan (meditation) almost 38 years ago. In this short article, I have briefly described the experience and the effect it has brought to my life. Rajiv Krishna Saxena ध्यान: मेरे कुछ अनुभव आध्यात्म की ओर मेरा झुकाव लगभग 47 वर्ष पहले शुरू हुआ। तब मैं पी एच डी …

Even though Hindi was declared as the National language, after independence it has progressively lost ground to English, especially amongst urban and more educated Indians. Today, we see that while the simple conversational Hindi liberally adulterated with English words is gaining ground, pure and literary Hindi is slowly getting lost. …

We pray to various Gods. Sometimes the prayers are answered and sometimes they remain unanswered. In this article, the mechanism of how prayers are answered, as per the views of “Patanjali Yoga Darshana”, is explained. Please read on as this can benefit you by making your prayers more effective. – …