Ganesha the elephantheaded god is worshipped as the supreme lord of wisdom prosperity and good fortune Ganesh Chaturthi which has been an individual home function for a long time is now a social event ...

Walk into any Indian temple or flip through a book of Hindu mythology, and you're likely to find yourself face-to-face with a ...

Varanasi is not just one of the oldest living cities in the world it's also full of myths and mysteries. From holy rivers to ...

The objects themselves are "gorgeous": we see much "lively, expressive, dynamic sculpture", from "rudimentary" yakshas and ...

It doesn’t behove the stature of an Indian prime minister to deploy such racist language about any community, whether Indian or not. Why you could consider a course correction ...

The remark in question — that the "small-eyed Ganesha comes from abroad" — was an apparent allusion to Chinese goods in the ...

In a significant step towards boosting regional tourism, the Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO) and the Nepal ...

Unlike that opening sentence, Ancient India: Living Traditions is a very respectful and carefully managed show of religious art by the British Museum in which, quite honestly, the stirring charisma of ...

Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball ...

While Niranjana is commonly used for girls, the variant Niranjan is a rarer, yet powerful choice for boys. Meaning “pure” or ...

that could tell about the area’s deep connection to Buddhist traditions. Additionally, statues of other Hindu deities, including Brahma, Vishnu, and Ganesha, could be a sign of the coexistence ...

Ganesha being bathed; Kangra ... modelled after the figure of Brahma according to some texts. Shiva and the related Buddhist deity Avalokiteshvara, commonly depicted as ascetics, are also often shown ...