Metal hooks weighed down with milk pots skewered the flesh of men’s backs as tridents pierced their cheeks and tongues.

Ritual bathing at the confluence of large rivers has long held special significance in Hindu rituals. Sangam, where the Ganga ...

The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of ...

He then uses a steel stamp to mark them with a symbol of the Hindu god they prefer — from Lord Shiva, the powerful Hindu god ...

Delhi court orders seizure of M.F. Husain’s paintings of Hindu deities from Delhi Art Gallery A Delhi court on Monday (January 20, 2025) ordered the seizure of paintings of Hindu deities made ...

Native American Church members in Texas have long used peyote in prayer and during religious ceremonies. But believers and academics now say there's a shortage of the bluish-green plant, best known ...

The other side is dedicated to Vishnu, the god of preservation, and his followers. Before Shiva Vishnu was founded, the South Florida Hindu community — as diverse as it is — often gathered in ...

An architect who prefers not to provide her name reveals to EL PAÍS that years ago she worked on a project to build a pavilion in Malibu next to a meditation retreat for supervised ayahuasca ...

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 ...

The entry of the Sun into Uttarayan holds special significance in Hinduism. The word ‘uttar’ means ‘north ... In Tamil Nadu, it is celebrated as Pongal, wherein the Sun God and farm animals are ...

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(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 ...