Residents in U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' ancestral village in southern India were preparing to hold ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

My Deepavali prayer each year has been ‘May our land be blessed, may our lives be blessed’. And we have good reason to be charmed by the interplay of biodiversi ...

A basket of rose garlands on the bank of the Ganges. Devotees, who make annual pilgrimages to the shrines and temples of ...

Rooted in the hearts of people from Bihar, Jharkhand, eastern Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal, this four-day festival has gradually expanded its reach, thriving in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, ...

Three days after his defeat at the presidential election, Ranil Wickremesinghe gave up his political ghost. The UNP second command confirmed that their leader had finally decided to retire from ...

In all religious traditions, light, an emblem of divine goodness, seems to be in perennial conflict with, before finally ...

At the end of the Second World War, Subhas Chandra Bose was not of particular interest to the Americans, particularly because ...

And when asked why he wrote an autobiography in his 90s, the poet said he ‘wanted to open [his] heart, all [his] indiscretions, and neuroses.’ ...

Praveen: We grew up in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. We came here a few years ago ... We’d hear that shit every morning and when we went to the temple we’d have to hear an extended version of it. It was ...

Guru Nanak Jayanti, celebrated with great devotion by Sikhs worldwide, marks the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the ...