GUDUTA, India (AP) — The ritual began with a thunderous roll of leather drums, its clamor echoing through the entire village. Women dressed in colorful saris broke into an Indigenous folk dance, ...

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Lalit Mengi lkmengi@rediffmail.com India had blazed a trail across the world, in the millennium and a half from 250 BC to ...

KHAJURAHO, India (RNS) — The ancient, ornately carved Hindu and Jain temples outside this central Indian city have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986, and they are on the Archaeological ...

Once the faith of millions, a small but devoted number of adherents in Asia and North America keep the flame of faith burning. Farzin Yezishne, a Zoroastrian mobed (priest), performs a blessing ...

GUDUTA, India — The ritual began with a thunderous roll of leather drums, its clamor echoing through the entire village. Women dressed in colorful saris broke into an Indigenous folk dance, tapping ...

India, the birthplace of the game of chess, the concept of zero, and the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun, has long been the source of some of humanity's most revolutionary ideas. Yet, as ...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday described Hinduism as a philosophy and a comprehensive way of life, rather than merely a religion.

The British Museum in London has often been accused of cultural imperialism and colonialism, particularly by the U.K.’s ethnic minorities. There is a bitter dispute about many famous pieces acquired ...