Host: Kathy Conner 

My guest was Linda Egenes.  Linda is an adjunct associate professor of writing at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, where she lives with her husband, Sanskrit scholar and author Thomas Egenes, Ph.D. Linda co-authored a number of books on meditation and health with Dr. Kumuda Reddy.  Her latest book, also co-authored with Dr Reddy is The Ramayana: A New Retelling of Valmiki’s Ancient Epic—Complete and Comprehensive.  It is due out Sept. 6 with Tarcher/Perigee press, an imprint of Penguin/Random House.