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

A series of short films in which 14-year-old Simran and her 11-year-old brother Vraj explain the traditions and beliefs of their Hindu faith ... My Life, My Religion. Suitable for teaching ...

Arati is the Hindu ceremony in which a person receives a blessing by warming their hands over a candle lamp and then over their face.

Asceticism holds a special place in Hinduism, where renunciation of worldly pleasures is seen as a path to spiritual enlightenment. Ascetics, also known as sannyasis or yogis, dedicate their lives ...

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The town was Muslim majority then as it is now. Both Hindu and Muslim communities are on tenterhooks on the eve of every religious commemoration both then and now, afraid that violence would break out ...

More likely, kings and emperors in the Archipelago were drawn to the prestige of the Brahmans (the Hindu priestly class which forms the highest ranking of the four Indian social classes). These ...

But as a performance, it is something that changes with time and space. Therefore, like music, it is an intangible heritage. Hindu temple art shows gods dancing – Shiva dancing, Krishna dancing, ...