The Light of Asia

Author	Mahatma Gandhi
ISBN	0807059099

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the...

Author	Byron Katie
ISBN	1400045371

Out of nowhere, like a breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice, comes Byron Katie and “The Work.” In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank further into rage, despair, and thoughts of suicide. Then one morning, she woke up in a state of...

Author	Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
ISBN	0140449183

The Bhagavad Gita is an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and is also one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit poetry. It describes how, at the beginning of a mighty battle between the Pandava and Kaurava armies, the god Krishna gives spiritual enlightenment to the warrior...

Author	Srividya Natarajan
ISBN	8189059173

What does it mean to be an untouchable in India? Why do some Indians despise the touch of others? Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), one of India's foremost revolutionaries, recounts his experiences of growing up untouchable and being routinely discriminated against: in school at the age of 10,...

Author

Henry Steel Olcott

A specious beginning, proclaiming the ills of euhemerization deteriorates with laughable rapidity into a grandiloquent deification of Buddha.

Olcott's self-view as a gimlet-eyed critic is apparent from his self-aggrandising spree of religion-bashing. In reality, his perspicacity...