Millions of devotees across India are celebrating the Shivaratri festival that honors the Hindu god Shiva, one of the main ...

The devotees celebrate the festival in temples by pouring water or milk over the Shiva linga, a stone sculpture symbolic of ...

Director Dolly believes Hindu gods deserve more prominence in cinema, rejecting the term “mythology” for epics like Ramayana ...

Shining as bright as the moon, Mayank is a beautiful name derived from Sanskrit. The Moon God Chandra holds great ...

"Would Shiva still be the destroyer if he were never woven into the Vedas? Would Krishna be the beloved deity if the ...

SURYAPET, India (AP) — Chants of “Om Linga, Om Linga” resonated as barefoot Hindu pilgrims, many balancing offering-filled ...

Author Manu S Pillai dives deep into primary and secondary sources to show the trajectory modern Hindu identity formation ...

Identifying with a group for reasons “aside from religion” – such as ethnically, culturally, or because of family background ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees gathered at a revered temple in Nepal’s capital on Wednesday to ...