Lord Rama is the embodiment of compassion, gentleness, kindness, righteousness and integrity. He is the upholder of Dharma (righteousness). He holds true to his ideals, in the face of trials and ...

Mahashivratri is a Hindu festival dedicated to Shiva, one of the deities of the Hindu Trinity. Find this year's date in the multifaith calendar Mahashivratri (also known as Shivaratri) is a Hindu ...

Lord Dattatreya is the supreme embodiment of Hindu trinity. Those seeking spiritual salvation through sincere devotion are preparing for Datta Jayanti. In fact, Dattatreya Jayanti is considered as one ...

Devotees in large numbers visited the temples across India today to offer prayers on the occasion of Mahashivratri. They stood in long queues waiting to offer milk and fruits to Lord Shiva.

“Ram ayenge toh angana sajayenge” – The popular song played on the transistor radio in the small chai ki tapri in a bylane of Delhi’s Sukhdev Vihar, a posh, urban upper middle-class neighborhood, as I ...

The largest Hindu temple in North America is not in Los Angeles, New York or Chicago, but just outside Minneapolis. Specifically, the 43,000-square-foot Hindu Temple of Minnesota sits in Maple Grove, ...

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. _ On a cold, rainy Sunday morning in the parking lot of a Hindu temple, a group of Indian-American medical students sign up devotees for free diabetes and cholesterol tests. Inside, ...

Of all the major world religions, Hinduism is by far the closest to ancient paganism – in fact, by many metrics, it is the last pagan religion. At roughly 4000 years old, it stands alongside Judaism ...

Hinduism is one of the world's oldest religions. According to Britannica "Adherents hold that Hinduism—one of the principal faiths in the modern world, with about one billion followers—is the world’s ...