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...Among his admirers were John D Rockefeller, Gertrude Stein and Leo Tolstoy. Yet Shearer is equally clear that yoga, with its eastern mystique, provided convenient cover for con artists....
...“There was a lot of talk about Hindu scripture, about the Vedas and the ultimate nature of reality,” she remembers....
...It was these tribes who inspired Kipling’s most famous short story, The Man Who Would Be King, as well as the 1975 John Huston movie that was based on it: the tale of two British ne’er-do-well deserters,...
...But many took a salad bar approach to philosophy, picking up a forkful of Vedas along with a dollop of the I-Ching....
...The entire journey is linked by a thread of the Rig Veda, the ancient Sanskrit hymns of worship which exalted the Indus as the ”Unconquered Sindhu”, river of rivers....
...Otherwise, I like Indian vegetarian food, and Veda (8 Arbuthnot Road, Central +852 2868 5885) and Jashan (23 Hollywood Road, Central +852 3105 5311) are favourites.”...
...History buffs will want to make their way to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, which documents the times surrounding the rise and fall of John F. Kennedy....
...Analysts said the bid for Veda valued the company at 22 times earnings whereas Experian was trading on 18 times prospective earnings before Monday’s gains....
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