The Kailasa Temple and the Lie of “No Architecture Before the Mughals” One of the most awe-inspiring examples of human ...

A course on Hinduism at the University of Houston has sparked massive uproar as an Indian-American student and activist accused it of promoting "Hinduphobic" views and "distorting India’s ...

A person with true bhakti is able to visualise Lord Narayana. What is this true bhakti? It is not contractual bhakti, where we offer a quid pro quo to the Lord, if some wish of ours is fulfilled.

who would follow his colleagues to a Hindu temple. He became a medium at the temple and participated in several of their religious festivals. The Chens also started a home altar and opened ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian hosts an annual celebration ... Community members pull together to create handcrafted altars, sugar skull workshops, and traditional ...

The calls to end the involvement of the government in the administration and control of Hindu temples in India have gained momentum in the past few weeks. The controversy over Andhra Pradesh Chief ...

We do not estimate migration flows – how many people move across borders in any single year. Hindu migrants make up a small share of all international migrants (5%), with 13 million Hindus living ...

She is wrapped in a traditional sari as she speaks, a kindly twinkle in her eye even as she seems to chide in an Instagram video posted in March. “Kids often tell me they have no time for puja ...

are placed on the altar as well. A staple of this festival celebration is the sugar skull, which is a representation of the Calavera, or skull. These ornamental sweets serve as both treats and an ...

Indeed, a milestone in contemporary India-Israel relations was Israel’s supplying of weapons to Indian forces fighting Pakistan during the Kargil War of 1999. This shared security perspective ...

My country is inching closer to becoming a Hindu supremacist state, as Muslims are getting more excluded by the day. India’s majority Hindu community seems largely oblivious or in denial of the ...

Hindu worshippers have begun praying inside a 17th-century mosque in the Indian city of Varanasi, hours after a court order gave them the go-ahead at the disputed site. The Gyanvapi Mosque in ...