MOSCOW, Dec 28 (Reuters) - A Russian court on Wednesday rejected prosecutors' calls to ban one of Hinduism's most holy books, a case that provoked protests in India, by including it on a list of ...

India, Aug. 30 -- The city parks are full of fallen dry leaves. Walking almost on a mattress of them to the familiar sound of crunch crunch, I suddenly became very aware of my own mortality. These ...

(RNS) — The Bhagavad Gita As It Is, considered one of the most prevalent editions of the sacred Gita text, has been banned from Florida prison systems since 2022. (RNS) — In 2023, Rakesh Patel, an ...

NEW DELHI — In India, a decision by publishing house Penguin to withdraw a book on Hinduism by an American scholar has been slammed by literary and academic circles. While worries are being expressed ...

The basics of Hindu cosmology and mythology. (This is the third of a series. See earlier ones here and here.) Christians and Jews tend to ask lots of questions about how life began. Hindus tend not to ...

Beijing: More than 100 of the nearly 1,300 people missing after massive floods in a border area of Nepal and China were on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, a sacred site in the Himalayas. The disaster ...