A recent stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj claimed the lives of over 30 people, with the Congress blaming VVIP ...

JAIPUR: Author and parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor, slamming ‘Hindutva politics’ at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Sunday, ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, a Hindu festival in India that is drawing hundreds of millions of pilgrims, is a powerful marketing tool for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his allies.

South Asia was once the eastern part of the Ancient Greek world, a pivotal yet little explored part of the Greek empire and ...

Millions of missionaries work in schools, hospitals and other institutions. Their success is deepening divisions.

Tucked away on a residential street in Southwest Broward County lies a holy structure of architectural grandeur that looks as if it were uprooted straight from India and transplanted to South ...

The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, ...

The world’s largest religions like Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and others, influence history, culture, and daily life.

A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. At the Maha Kumbh festival, ...

One example is the term “Hinduism” itself. It was used first by Charles Grant in a pejorative sense, to dismiss “natives’” religion as crude superstition. Yet within a few years that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A book about Hinduism which begins with a maharaja’s cows sounds a little like a Rudyard Kipling tale ...