The Cordillera mountain ranges in the Philippine Northern Luzon Island are the home of indigenous people collectively known as Kaigorotan (Igorot peoples). These indigenous communities have a homogeneous identity in sociocultural traits and religious beliefs. The traditional religion has its own cosmic worldview. The supreme God is often identified with the sun and lives in space, referred to as Kabunian. Western influences arrived in the Cordillera in the early 20th century when the Catholic missionaries started schools and hospitals as a means of spreading Christianity. They unscrupulously...

India has a long history of education. Since Vedic period, India has guru-shishya parambara in which the students stayed with the guru in monasteries and temples of learning, who patronized his disciples as his own children and part of the family. This Vedic education is a fine combination of philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, spirituality, formation of character, development of personality, cultivation of civil and social sense, promotion of social efficacy, preservation and spread of local culture. All these have become futile by greedy materialism today. Quo Vadis College Campus? Where...

Art, Culture, and Gender issues reflect the human psyche down through the history. The identity of a person comes from family, community, country, land, culture and spirituality. One can't understand an individual removed from that. India is a multicultural, tolerant society with its complex traditions, beliefs, and thinking, which is distressed by various socio-political and religious elements today. However, the glorious India is admired for its tolerance and multiculturalism. Due to pressure groups and fanatic outfits emerging in the society, India is slowly losing its original social...