A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. But at the festival, where millions are flocking to pray and bathe at the confluence of India’s holy ...

The Delhi High Court on 20 January permitted police to seize the paintings after a lawyer named Amita Sachdeva complained the artworks – featuring Hindu ... “Ancient Indian art has been ...

For one weekend this month, a corner of New Delhi transformed into its own garden of earthly delights at the 16th edition of the annual India Art Fair (IAF), where art in all manner of shape ...

The book not only introduces readers to India’s major art movements —Santiniketan, the Progressive Artists’ Group, the Baroda Radicals, the Cholamandal Artists’ Village, and others — but ...

A fire tore through at least 18 temporary tents at a massive Hindu festival thronged by millions of people in India’s northern Prayagraj city, officials said Sunday. There were no injuries.

The festival is a big test for Indian authorities to showcase the Hindu religion, tourism and crowd management. A vast ground along the banks of the rivers has been converted into a sprawling tent ...

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers meet, officials said. By Hari Kumar and Anupreeta Das ...

At least 18 people died during a stampede at a railway station in India's capital late Saturday ... The Kumbh Mela attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful every 12 years to the northern ...

A court in the Indian capital ... displayed at an art gallery and featuring two Hindu deities, "hurt religious sentiments". Husain, who died in 2011 aged 95, often faced backlash for the ...

India’s Hindu festival of Maha Kumbh Mela, which has drawn millions of devotees to a confluence of sacred rivers in the northern Uttar Pradesh state, is mired in political controversy after ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, drawn by the hope that the bathing would bring ...