Honor the God of Dharma and Justice, Yama, on February 7, 2025, as worship during Shukla Dashami fosters discipline, clarity, ...

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

The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of immortality from demons. Hindus believe that a few drops fell in the cities ...

As an offspring of Aditi, a Vedic entity representing infinity, Surya is one of the twelve Adityas, which also include Indra, ...

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A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. But at the festival, where ...

Delhi Art Gallery, which exhibited legendary artist MF Husain’s works, says it will pursue legal action against lawyer whose police complaint led to the court order ...

The Delhi High Court on 20 January permitted police to seize the paintings after a lawyer named Amita Sachdeva complained the artworks – featuring Hindu deities Ganesha and Hanuman alongside nud ...

A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has ordered the seizure of two "offensive" paintings by MF Husain, one of India's most ...

displayed in the Delhi Art Gallery. The paintings showed Hindu gods Hanuman and Ganesha holding nude female characters in hands and on the lap. The orders came on the complaint filed by Delhi High ...

Husain, who died in 2011 aged 95, often faced backlash for the depictions of nude Hindu gods in his paintings. The Delhi Art Gallery (DAG), which hosted the exhibition, denied any wrongdoing and ...