Women in brightly colored saris waded into the knee-deep water flecked with blobs of white foam. Some carried a coconut or ...

They came from all walks of life—with diverse practices devoted to diverse gods. And that raises a question – with all those many ways of doing Hinduism…what does it mean to be Hindu?

The Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad (a sacred Hindu text) states ... A statue of the elephant-headed god, Lord Ganesh Some Hindus believe that Brahman is omnipotent (all-powerful), so these events ...

In the year 1939, as German tanks and soldiers invaded Poland, a famous Polish artist and his film-star wife pawned off their ...

Indian sculptor Naresh Kumawat is crafting what will be Canada’s largest statue of a Hindu god. You may have already caught a ...

It's 50 years since the UK release of George Harrison’s most successful solo single, My Sweet Lord, that was instrumental in popularising the Hindu divine ... For Radio 4’s Sunday Programme ...

Goddess Durga may be depicted having more or fewer arms, with a tiger or a lion, and may be shown accompanied by other Hindu gods. On the sixth day, devotees take smaller idols home while the ...

You should draw from the ancient texts to the stories of the gods to the holy sites along the banks of the Ganges River. Topics could include: Gain a basic understanding of Hinduism through the ...

Performing as one of Hindu-majority India’s most beloved gods means living up to the values enshrined in his inspiring life story, says Agnihotri, the actor playing Lord Rama. The former ...

as Jammu and Kashmir is all set to witness its first Assembly session on November 4 after a gap of six years, which also saw the downgrading of the erstwhile State of J&K into a Union Territory (UT).

Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees flocked to rivers and bodies of water across India to pray to the sun god as part of the ...