A fire has torn through at least 18 temporary tents at a massive Hindu festival thronged by millions of people in India’s ...

Author Mukund Padmanabhan explores the undocumented exodus of 1942 in his book 'The Great Flap of 1942' at The Hindu Lit for ...

Symbols have always been a part of rituals, traditions, and even everyday activities. From the simple cross that convent ...

Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims are taking dips in sacred rivers in the first of a series ...

Salil Tripathi discusses the dominance of Gujaratis from Gandhi to Modi in his new book at Hindu Lit for Life.

Over about the next six weeks, Hindu pilgrims will gather at the confluence of three sacred rivers where they will take part ...

Maha Kumbh, the largest gathering of people anywhere on Earth, is expected to draw more than 400 million devotees to India’s ...

It’s late evening in the city of Prayagraj and the roadside vendors selling snacks are packing up their wares to shut for the ...

A fire has torn through at least 18 temporary tents at a massive Hindu festival thronged by millions of people in India.

Vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims in India bathed in sacred waters Monday as the Kumbh Mela festival opened, with organisers ...