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The five-day festival of Diwali starts October 31 this year. Indianapolis held the city's inaugural event to mark the Hindu ...

In India where light skin is coveted, a new campaign is re-imagining popular Hindu gods and goddesses with a darker skin, writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi. The desire for fairer skin is not ...

Kinsley, Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition [Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986], 133). The term shakti refers to multiple ideas. Its general ...

A court in India has summoned a filmmaker who earlier shared a poster depicting a woman dressed as Hindu goddess Kali smoking a cigarette. Director Leena Manimekalai's tweet of the poster from her ...

Goddess Laxmi, consort of Lord Vishnu ... She has four arms that represents the four Hindu philosophical goals such as dharma (righteousness), artha (wealth), Kama (desires), and Moksha (liberation).

Widely celebrated in India and by people of Indian descent all around the world ... and leaving offerings to Diwali’s main ...

Diwali is one of the biggest festivals celebrated by the Hindu community. Sikhs also celebrate the event. Diwali means row of lights and the celebrations take place over five days. Many Hindus ...

In Muslim-majority Bangladesh, the weeklong celebration of the Hindu goddess Durga has strained the Hindu community with reports of vandalism, violence and intimidation in parts of Bangladesh.