Jodhpur: The mortal remains of a Ukrainian tourist, who passed away in Jodhpur Saturday morning, were consigned to flames Wednesday as per Hindu customs, following the consent of her son. Her ashes ...

When Ananth Udupa was 7 and growing up in Phoenix, he underwent a Hindu rite of passage for boys of higher castes called an Upanayana. The ceremony, which goes back millennia, in some ways delineates ...

Tradition: In Hinduism, every ritual has a deeper meaning. Certain practices are followed from birth to death. Even the last ...

Asutosh Das Bairagya, 62, a farmhand by profession and a devout Vaishnav, died in the early hours of Sunday at Baliura village of Tehatta after a prolonged cardiac ailment Members of the Muslim ...

Edited film: Documents an annual festival of a small Tengali temple in Madras City, India. The special Hindu celebration, utsava, is typical of the minor seasonal festival seen at many South Indian ...