The artworks, part of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, help shed light on a traditional ...

When is Sheetala Ashtami in 2025? Sheetala Ashtami, also known as Basoda Puja, holds great significance in Hindu culture.

Penelope Beltran, 8, smiles after her mother puts colored powder on her during the celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of ...

Millions of people in South Asia celebrated Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, on Friday by smearing each other with ...

When we think of Goddess Lakshmi, the first image that comes to mind is one of wealth and prosperity. She is the radiant ...

Shiva is considered masculine, and conceptualised as pure consciousness -- call it soul, transcendent spirit, whatever that ...

the goddess of love and devotion. It’s this myth where we get Holi’s tradition of throwing colors. In Hinduism, Krishna has blue skin while Radha is depicted as light-skinned. According to ...

He criticised Mughal rulers, including Akbar, for what he perceived as their policy of religious intolerance towards Hindu subjects. He employed a God/evil binary to argue that Hindus cannot revere ...

(AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.) Millions of devotees across India are celebrating the Shivaratri festival that honors the Hindu god Shiva, one of the main deities of Hinduism. The devotees celebrate the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees gathered at a revered temple in Nepal’s capital on Wednesday to ...