They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, drawn by the hope that the bathing would ...

In ‘The New Icon’, Arun Shourie dives into Savarkar’s books, essays, speeches and statements to answer lingering questions ...

(CNN) — Dozens of people were killed in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering in India early Wednesday, as ...

Delhi Art Gallery, which exhibited legendary artist MF Husain’s works, says it will pursue legal action against lawyer whose police complaint led to the court order ...

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 Ganesha and Hanuman alongside nud ...

The court on Monday granted permission for the police to seize the artworks after a complaint was filed alleging that the paintings, displayed at an art gallery and featuring two Hindu deities ...

Hinduism has through the years gone through several layers of evolution. As European power grew in the Indian subcontinent in the 16th and 17th centuries, the religion underwent yet another process of ...

The elaborate shrines of Shiva and Vishnu — two of the main deities in Hinduism — were built based on 10th- and 12th-century Indian architecture and sit symmetrically across from one another ...

Historian Manu S. Pillai whose new book Gods, Guns and Missionaries explores the historical origins of modern Hinduism and how religious identities are refashioned under duress will discuss the ...

The three ends of the spear represent destruction, creation, and maintenance. Explanation: Indra is considered the king of gods in Hindu mythology; he is depicted riding a white elephant.

“We have thrown open three of our educational institutions -- St Joseph College, St Mary’s Convent Inter College, and Bethany Convent School -- for the convenience of Hindu pilgrims during the entire ...

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 ...