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

Ritual bathing at the confluence of large rivers has long held special significance in Hindu rituals. Sangam, where the Ganga ...

The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of ...

He then uses a steel stamp to mark them with a symbol of the Hindu god they prefer — from Lord Shiva, the powerful Hindu god ...

Native American Church members in Texas have long used peyote in prayer and during religious ceremonies. But believers and academics now say there's a shortage of the bluish-green plant, best known ...

While the new mascot is generally bringing smiles — a saree-clad bespectacled swan holding a book — there are people who are wondering why the vehicle of a Hindu goddess should be made the ...

Drawing from personal experiences, Pillai illustrated the fluid nature of Hindu practices. He described his ancestral temple in Kerala, which houses a fascinating array of deities—from the forest ...

He’s mostly remembered today as a seafaring deity, but he was also God of earthquakes, and was deeply honored for giving humanity the horse. Oddly enough, he even sired one: Pegasus, the winged steed ...

The other side is dedicated to Vishnu, the god of preservation, and his followers. Before Shiva Vishnu was founded, the South Florida Hindu community — as diverse as it is — often gathered in ...

On day one of The Hindu Lit for Life, the pavilion stage was set for one last session of the day. One of the first words heard on stage was “I LIKE SEX”, and as soon as the hundred odd people ...

An architect who prefers not to provide her name reveals to EL PAÍS that years ago she worked on a project to build a pavilion in Malibu next to a meditation retreat for supervised ayahuasca ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A book about Hinduism which begins with a maharaja’s cows sounds a little like a Rudyard Kipling tale ...