Dear Friends,
We are pleased to present to you ALotusInTheMud.com, a wellness and spirituality web magazine. Started in November 2022, it was formally launched at the Indian Consulate in New York in January 2023. Paywall-free, it has been growing its audience at a fast clip. We have received positive feedback from our readers for the helpful content and the media – both print and electronic – has given us extensive coverage.
Lotus was started in the wake of Covid19 pandemic to render service to society in the form of information and analysis for people to be happier, healthier, and more peaceful. We do stories and content sourcing from ancient traditions as well as cutting-edge modern science. A litmus test for publishing any article – and we published over 750 original, in-depth articles already – is that it has to be authoritative, well-researched, edifying, and useful to our readers. Our presentation for the modern person uses contemporary idioms and a lively style. The user-friendly design matches the best in the web space.
Gaining prominence and growing our resources, we have been able to take on projects belying our young age. We started our monthly newsletter, ‘The Lotus Bloom’, in June 2023. It is free to our growing list of subscribers. Another newsletter goes to our subscribers and contacts via WhatsApp.
A big moment came for us when we were invited to the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago in August 2023. In September, we organized a public event on Kashmir Shaivism in Hicksville, NY with Virendra Qazi, a top world expert on the subject.
In February 2025, we were invited as Digital Media Partner to the Global Conference of Meditation Leaders in Delhi.
In June 2025 we proudly celebrated the International Day of Yoga along with the Brahma Kumaris at their Americas HQ in Great Neck, NY. Titled The Spirit of Yoga, the event was in association with the Indian Consulate, New York.
Lotus is founded and helmed by Parveen Chopra, a seasoned media professional who has specialized in wellness, personal growth and spirituality. A trained teacher of meditation, he started ‘Life Positive’, India’s first body-mind-spirit print magazine in 1996 from New Delhi. Moving to the US, he edited ‘The South Asian Times’ for over a decade and ‘One World Under God’ interfaith journal. He is also writing a column for Patheos.com multi-religion platform. He is growing the Lotus team here in the US and in India.
The Lotus flower is a powerful symbol across cultures of beauty, pristine radiance, and resilience. Arising from muddy water, ‘Lotus in the mud’ signifies that we may get caught up in problems and suffer as a result, but we have the inherent capability to emerge to full bloom Lotus state in body, mind, and spirit.
Lotus webmag is published by the American Center for Wellness and Spirituality Inc (ACWS), a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation. ACWS is a social enterprise that also takes up offline activities. Among its objectives is fostering interfaith and inter-community harmony as well as world peace.
We are independent, not aligned with any ideology or institution.
Thank you for your visit,
You may contact us for any query, suggestion or collaboration: lotus4usa@gmail.com, or +1 516 710 0508
– Parveen Chopra