THOUSANDS of people are flocking to an Indian village to worship a baby girl born with rare tumours, as they believe she is a reincarnation of Durga, a multi-armed Hindu goddess. The tumours on ...

Thousands of people are flocking an Indian village to worship a baby girl born with rare tumours as they believe she is a reincarnation of Durga, the multi-armed Hindu mother goddess. The tumours ...

Hindu gods feature prominently in Khmer religion and art. By far, the most well known is Vishnu the Creator, commonly seen in benign poses with four arms. But there are many incidences where Vishnu ...

multi-armed goddesses co-opted to help contain and kill pestilence. Collectively known as “Amman,” or the Divine Mother, the goddesses of contagion – and it always goddesses, not gods ...

It is a self-portrait of Indian-born Biswas as the multi-armed Hindu Goddess Kali and was loaned to the Neuberger Museum for a special exhibition which ended earlier this month. Following its ...