The event is taking place in Mylapore, the cultural neighborhood of Chennai, the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The Madras Music Season, also known as the Madras Music Festival and the ...

Historian V. Sriram and Carnatic singer Ashwath Narayanan took us through the fearless expressions of Ninda Stuti, where saints and poets mock, provoke, and even accuse their gods to forge an ...

The religious landscape of Japan is a fascinating blend of Shintoism, Buddhism, and other traditions. Across cultures, India ...

Discover the deep symbolism behind elephant tattoos. Learn about their meanings in strength, wisdom, luck, and spirituality ...

Before Rome awoke, the jurisconsult supervised the grooming of an Indian white elephant, an “exotic” marvel meant to match ...

The West Bengal Forest Department tries to reduce elephant-human conflict by providing food and using “hulla parties.” ...

Renowned sitarist Anoushka Shankar and PETA India gift a life-size mechanical elephant to Kombara Sreekrishna Swami Temple.

The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of immortality from demons. Hindus believe that a few drops fell in the ...

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 ...

The Delhi Police on Tuesday informed a court that an FIR has been lodged against journalist Rana Ayyub after a lawyer accused her of spreading “anti-India sentiment” and “insulting” Hindu deities on ...

Sachdeva was also the complainant in a case against an art gallery in Delhi for displaying paintings by the late artist MF Husain that are allegedly offensive to Hindu gods. On Thursday ...