Many Ramayanas, Many Lessons' by Anand Neelakantan is part of the author's effort to compile folk, oral, and textual ...

If you want to be on the up-and-coming, these are Indian and Hindu names that are on trend right now in India, listed in order of popularity and with their meanings, according to BabyCenter in India.

There is a certain kind of liberal Hindu thought that dissociates itself from the “narrow bigoted nature” of Hindu religious thought that has made its fanatical appearance in the last few years.

Baby names inspired by Lord Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom, learning, and the arts, offer a profound and meaningful choice.

He is a Californian with German roots and I’m an Indian immigrant. Recalling the moments right before I met his family, he told me to be myself and that they’re going to love me. (It worked.) But when ...

The Maya civilization had one of the most intricate religious systems in the ancient world. From powerful gods like the maize god and the rain god Chaac to the complex calendar cycles and ancestor ...

The event’s main draw is the thousands of ash-smeared Hindu ascetics who make massive processions toward the confluence to bathe. Indian authorities took more than 16 hours to release casualty ...

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers meet, officials said. By Hari Kumar and Anupreeta Das ...

India’s Hindu festival of Maha Kumbh Mela, which has drawn millions of devotees to a confluence of sacred rivers in the northern Uttar Pradesh state, is mired in political controversy after ...

Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population, but at one time it was influenced by Hindu and Buddhist kings. Arab Muslim traders arrived here in the 8th century. But Islam was propagated ...