Hinduism is a religion of intricate and highly symbolic rituals. Visually, these rituals include a dynamic play of light/fire, colors, textures, hand gestures, and body postures and movements ...

National Percussion Festival celebrates diverse rhythms, history, and inclusion in the world of percussion arts.

Is it possible today for literature and art to engage with religious aesthetic without celebrating the repressive dimensions of religion? June 11, 2025 e-Paper LOGIN Account ...

Not everyone seeks perfection. Some people seek truth. Not polished, Instagrammable, spiritual-aesthetic truth—but raw, tangled, untamed truth. The kind that doesn’t come from reading a quote or ...

Art historian BN Goswamy’s selection of Indian miniature paintings spanning nearly thousand years provides the reader a lyrical backstory to the artworks ...

In a recent social media post showing off her Savage X Fenty brand, the singer Rihanna posed topless while sporting a diamond-studded pendant of Ganesh, the elephant-headed god. Hindus expressed their ...

This article explains the Hindu concepts of Atman, Dharma, Varna, Karma, Samsara, Purushartha, Moksha, Brahman, Bhagavan and Ishvara. Atman means 'eternal self'. The atman refers to the real self ...

I am a Hindu. I love my religion's glorious and imaginative epic stories, in which seers chose the moment they die and goddesses kill the bad guy while riding a tiger.

The word “Hindu” denotes more than a set of theological beliefs. In many languages, French and Persian among them, the word for Indian is Hindu. Originally foreigners used it when referring to ...