A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. But at the festival, where millions are flocking to pray and bathe at the confluence of India’s holy rivers, it morphs into a major display of Hinduism in various forms and designs.
Kashyap Patel's confirmation hearing as FBI Director nominee and Tulsi Gabbard's hearing as Director of National Intelligence nominee highlighted their Hindu faith and experiences of racism and bigotry.
Mysuru: CM's son and Congress MLC Yathindra Siddaramaiah on Friday stated that atheists are also part of Hinduism, which considers it a philosophy.
Bodies, clothes and bags lay scattered on the ground after a deadly stampede at the world's largest gathering of humanity, the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India, on one of the most auspicious days in Hinduism.
Vālmīki’s epic poem “The Rāmāyaṇa” is a great work of literature and a treasure of Indian culture — but its political and religious appropriation has entrenched divisions and exclusion in Indian society.
Hindu devotees and mystics have gathered in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, which is the largest religious congregation on Earth.
India — a famous town known for its 7th- and 8th-century Hindu monuments — and located in the rural community of Southwest Ranches, the ornate temple offers a portal to South Indian religious rituals and centuries-old cultural traditions. Hinduism is a ...
The Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela surpassed the symbolic figure of 300 million holy baths since its beginning on Jan. 13 in northern India, according to data from the organizers, as the investigation into the deadly stampede continues.
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.
NEW DELHI — Tens of thousands of people at a massive religious gathering in India rushed to take a holy bath in the country's northern Prayagraj city, setting off a stampede early Wednesday that ...
Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who has been picked by President Donald Trump to oversee spy agencies, on Thursday alleged that Democratic senators are trying to foment religious bigotry against Hindus and Hinduism.
Protesters clashed with police outside an Istanbul courthouse in Turkey on Friday while people rallied in support of the city’s mayor, who was called to give testimony in two new legal probes against him.