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Nepal: Hindu devotees in Nepal celebrate last day of Madhav Narayan
Hundreds of Hindu devotees gathered on Wednesday in Hanumanghat, Bhaktapur, to celebrate the last day of the month-long ...
The Associated Press on MSN15d
Sacred strokes of color on foreheads are a major display of Hinduism at India’s Maha Kumbh festival
A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. But at the festival, where ...
The Independent22d
Paintings of Hindu gods by ‘Picasso of India’ seized for being ‘offensive’
It is a deliberate and malicious attempt to insult Hindu deities. Thousands saw our deities ... out in the name of cultural purity”. “Ancient Indian art has been never devoid of eroticism ...
The Hindu29d
The Hindu Lit for Life | Manu Pillai on religion, Hindu nationalism and taking a break
I have been thinking about this book [Gods, Guns and Missionaries] since 2011 when I did my masters dissertation on Hindu nationalism ... The books begin in ancient India and end at the Mughals.
The Washington Post15d
Sacred strokes of color on foreheads are a major display of Hinduism at India’s Maha Kumbh festival
The festival, where a stampede killed 30 people Wednesday, has historically embraced diversity in the ancient traditions ... or names of various Hindu gods written in Hindi and English.
Miami Herald27d
A Hindu temple hidden away in this slice of rural Broward transports visitors to South India
Venkateswara, a Hindu deity, described as a form of the god Vishnu, is placed inside the ... by one overarching scripture but thousands of ancient texts and writings that are “rich in their ...
Japanese Goddess Benzaiten is equivalent of Maa Saraswati, Kangiten is Lord Ganesha? Know about 'Indian Gods in Japan'
If you want to learn more about Indian Gods – including Shiva, Ganesha and Saraswati – and their Japanese counterparts, you ...