In ‘The New Icon’, Arun Shourie dives into Savarkar’s books, essays, speeches and statements to answer lingering questions ...

A Malaysian snake temple list is incomplete without arguably the most famous of such temples in the country, namely the Snake Temple in Penang. That is the name it is most known by, but the Buddhist ...

A book about Hinduism which begins with a maharaja’s ... And as some priests engaged with Brahmins, they found that the trappings of many gods were simply a humanised vision of something more ...

Millions of people are expected to attend the Kumbh Mela festival in northern India, a six-week-long Hindu celebration of prayer and bathing that began before dawn on Monday. Each morning, ...

Having already skipped classes, Singh will then make detours to the Hindu holy cities of Varanasi ... festivities" and pay his "respects to the gods". The ascetic said he would stay for the ...

(AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Hindu pilgrims perform rituals after taking a holy dip at Hooghly River on the auspicious occasion of Makar Sankranti, in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP ...

“After taking the bath, I feel really good and full of positivity." The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of ...

while tractors turned into chariots for life-size idols of Hindu gods rolled behind them accompanied by elephants. Pilgrims exulted in the beat of drums and honking horns. The festival is rooted ...

Millions of people have taken a holy bath at the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela (also ... in a mythological story about a fight between the gods and demons over a Kumbh (a pitcher) of nectar that ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Hindu devotees take a holy dip in the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical ...