The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of ...

The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, ...

or names of various Hindu gods written in Hindi and English. Hindu priest Pandey, who sits cross-legged at a nearby stretch of the riverbank, can apply all of them. For every pilgrim who visits ...

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 ... so that all his works get ...

The success of the campaign to build the Ram temple on the ruins of Babri Mosque has fuelled calls for more mosques across ...

But, many Hindus, according to Restifo, would not describe the religion as “a polytheistic tradition,” but as one with one God, an all-encompassing creator, with different manifestations.

A book about Hinduism which begins with a maharaja’s ... And as some priests engaged with Brahmins, they found that the trappings of many gods were simply a humanised vision of something more ...

Gautam says he warned them about going on the day of Mauni Amavasya, considered auspicious by Hindus, as he knew there ... they were trying to find one another. All of them eventually got reunited ...