Ritual bathing at the confluence of large rivers has long held special significance in Hindu rituals. Sangam, where the Ganga ...

Whether due to natural disasters or thanks to the destructive tendencies of mankind, these iconic cultural touchstones no ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, a Hindu festival in India that is drawing hundreds of millions of pilgrims, is a powerful marketing tool for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his allies.

Hindu texts often declare that the four goals of human life are dharma ethics artha wealth kama pleasure and moksha liberation As one goes through Hindu scriptures one finds different types of sexual ...

Vedanta philosophy first arrived in northern California in February of 1900 with Swami Vivekananda, the great disciple of Sri ...

Vālmīki’s epic poem “The Rāmāyaṇa” is a great work of literature and a treasure of Indian culture — but its political and ...

The Delhi High Court on 20 January permitted police to seize the paintings after a lawyer named Amita Sachdeva complained the artworks – featuring Hindu deities ... had taken photos of the ...

The idea emerged that any gods worshipped through images were really agents of the devil, that idols contained demonic forces. In time, as Europeans encountered Hindu temples and deities in India, ...

The Cholas were a powerful south Indian dynasty known for military conquests, grand temples and shaping global trade and ...

The extent of the Eaton fire, which has now ravaged 14,117 acres of the city since it started burning on January 7, can be seen in new NASA images of Altadena. The picture was snapped on January ...

Hinduism is often imagined as a monolith of arcane and ancient rituals, in spite of the efforts of external invaders. In India itself, the image of a ... of many gods were simply a humanised ...

A music artist has created a poetic rap about local experiences of the Surrey Hills. Still Shadey, a Music of Black Origin (MOBO) award-winning artist, has written the rap as part of the national ...