Lunar New Year is a festival beyond compare. Technically it’s a week—determined by the lunar calendar but always late January to mid-February—but for many, Chunjie (Spring Festival) is more ...

It is about 40km south of Purulia town. Barely a decade back, the area was like an open-air museum with scattered sculptures of Jain and Buddhist deities. Thankfully, a gated enclosure has been built ...

And as some priests engaged with Brahmins, they found that the trappings of many gods were simply a humanised vision of something more akin to a familiar and orthodox monotheism. A recognition of ...

Every year, the animal whose year it is clashes with tai sui, the guardian deities, so it can lead to bad luck for those born under that zodiac sign.

Thirumal claimed that if this is allowed, other filmmakers will take cinematic liberties with depicting Gods, “If we let this continue, the younger generation won’t know that Hanuman isn’t ...

Ancient lore: The Bardo Thodol Fifty-eight wrathful deities, depicted in a Tibetan-Buddhist painting. (Wikimedia Commons) Tibetan-Buddhist lore has a guide for the dying that can feel, at least to ...

But Buddhism played a major role in a fall of the centre of the Islamic Empire. History often speaks of the continuous rise of Islam with the arrival of Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century.

The God of War video game series is loosely based on Greek and Norse mythology. Many of the gods were introduced early in the series and recur throughout many games. The game is acclaimed for its ...