Authors

  • Founder of alotusinthemud.com, Parveen Chopra is a seasoned media professional specializing in wellness, personal growth and spirituality. A trained teacher of meditation, he founded Life Positive, India’s first body-mind-spirit magazine, from New Delhi in 1996. Moving to the US, he edited The South Asian Times for over a decade and One World Under God interfaith journal. He also writes the column ‘Lotus Pond’ on Pathoes.com, a multi-religion platform. He lives on Long Island.

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  • Ashish Virmani

    Ashish Virmani is a journalist who has been writing since the early 1990s. He follows the Buddhism of the Soka Gakkai and credits his Buddhist mentor, Daisaku Ikeda, with saving his life and changing his destiny. He lives in the suburbs of Mumbai and divides his time between writing about spirituality and enthusiastically practicing Buddhism.

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