The devotees celebrate the festival in temples by pouring water or milk over the Shiva linga, a stone sculpture symbolic of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. Some also observe a fast during the ...

Ganesh Chaturthi is an important Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha and falls in the month of Bhadrapada. It falls either in August or September as per ...

Hindu mythology has many gods and goddesses, each with a special role. Some are still worshipped today, while others have been forgotten over time. In the early Vedic period, several powerful gods ...

The Delhi High Court on 20 January permitted police to seize the paintings after a lawyer named Amita Sachdeva complained the artworks – featuring Hindu deities Ganesha and Hanuman alongside nud ...

A statue of the Hindu god Ganesha is displayed at the Repatriated exhibition of Indonesian artefacts returned from the Netherlands, at Jakarta's National Museum. ANC's Nomvula Mokonyane opens up ...

With just a few days left for Ganesh Chaturthi festivities to kick ... only 15-20 families are engaged in the traditional craft today. The Hindu visited Pottery Town to see what goes into the ...

According to the Hindu calendar, Ganesh Chaturthi is observed on the fourth day of the bright fortnight (Shukla Paksha) of the Bhadrapada month. The festival commemorates the birth of the Hindu god ...

HINDU god Ganesh isn’t the first figure you would equate with drinking pale ale. But Spain’s brewers association (ACCE) has stirred outrage by plastering the elephant-headed deity – beer ...