Far from being decorative or exaggerated, the multiple arms of Hindu deities serve as profound symbols of divine power, ...

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 divine figure boasting ten arms, multiple heads, or riding a majestic ...

Why? Nishma Gosrani, of Britain’s National Hindu Student Forum, explains: “These gods should be worshipped in an honorable way.

In “Living Without the Gods,” Chicago-based Indian artist Shaurya Kumar probes the removal of spiritual artifacts under ...

At a festival celebrating the Hindu god today in Nepal, many of the holy men and women follow in the footsteps of the deity and have a little hashish.

A woman performs the Namaskara gesture, a traditional Indian greeting with hands in front of chest and a slight bow. Martin Harvey/Corbis There is no one key to unlocking the mysteries of India, a ...

We don’t always get what we want, because God sees what we cannot. Sometimes, His “no” is what keeps us alive. Third: A man who survived. The plane split in half and he happened to be in the section ...

A 6-year-old boy in the Indian state of Punjab is worshiped by villagers as the reincarnation of the Hindu god Ganesha. Pranshu, who is unable to walk properly, was born with an unexplained medical… ...

Are you wondering why the Indian police hold hands with alleged criminals instead of snapping handcuffs on them? From the four men arrested for the 2012 New Delhi bus gang rape, to the three men ...

In many Indian love poems, the wide, shapely eyes of beautiful women are compared to the lotus, while in devotional poetry it is the God’s eyes that invite the comparison.