What do C.S. Lewis, Quentin Tarantino and J.K. Rowling have in common? Maybe nothing, but here's what I think. One, all will have hit the big screen by December 2005; two, all are considered innovators; three, all have written about their characters entering a parallel world.

The devotee who turned '60s rock group the Beatles on to Krishna consciousness and introduced them to Srila Prabhupada, Shyamasundar das, is recovering from a live-donor transplant after discovering he had a tumor on his liver.

They've got loose pages, ghee-spattered covers and smidges of turmeric marking favourite recipes. One was published in 1973 but its vintage recipes still outperform many of those found in latter-day lavishly illustrated cookbooks.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 20 — Bobby Jindal, a conservative Republican congressman from the New Orleans suburbs and the son of immigrants from India, was elected Louisiana’s governor Saturday, inheriting a state that was suffering well before Hurricane Katrina left lingering scars two years ago.

The Guyana branch of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), also known as the ‘Hare Krishna’ movement, yesterday made a donation of religious books to the University of Guyana (UG) Library.