Each day of Chaitra Navratri is associated with a specific colour, which holds significant meaning and symbolism for the nine ...

but the tradition of throwing color references a story about the blue-skinned Hindu god Krishna, who playfully smears colored powder on the goddess Radha, said Subha Pathial, a Chinmaya volunteer ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of people in South Asia celebrated Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, on Friday by smearing each other with brightly colored powder, dancing to festive music and feasting on ...

Holi’s roots are in Hinduism. The god Krishna, cursed by a demon with ... So Krishna smears color on her so they look alike. Holi is in part a celebration of the love between Krishna and Radha ...

According to Hindu mythology: King Hiranyakashipu, Prahlad’s father, was a powerful and arrogant ruler. He considered himself invincible and wanted everyone to worship him as a god. Also Read ...

Here’s the meaning behind the Hindu celebration. Every Indian state celebrates Holi differently. Here in Uttar Pradesh, the women of Nandgaon (home of Hindu god Krishna) attack the men from ...

so did George Carlin when he claimed that God was a fiction. For today ... is the apotheosis of this new divine role. The Hindu religion being one of the main pillars of the BJP's very existence and ...

It's little wonder the Tuath Dé or the Tribe of the Gods were mistaken as the stuff of nonsense, but we as mere mortals today can make our own conclusions. When I came to live in Ireland ...

Though the festival has been commercialized with all sorts of marathon events like the Color ... Hindu myths tied to Holi. But one of the most popular is the story of Lord Krishna, known as the ...