Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A kaleidoscopic cloud hangs over India, where revellers mark the arrival of spring by throwing powdered dye with abandon, spraying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Varun Chopra’s Oscar-contending documentary short Holy Cowboys, the director offers a peek into a side of India’s societal ...

Once every twelve years the sun, the moon, and Jupiter meet in the zodiacal sign of Aquarius the Water Bearer. Hindus believe that this celestial event enhances the power of the Ganges to wash away ...

Before the era of COVID-19 restrictions, I took my mixed-race family to a springtime Holi celebration organized by a local Hindu temple in Southern California. It was the first time my sons—who know ...

PRAYAGRAJ – Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims took dips in freezing water at the confluence of sacred rivers in northern India on Tuesday, in the first of a series of ...

Inside a shrine overlooking snow-capped mountains, Hindu priests heaped spoonfuls of puffed rice and ghee into a crackling fire. They closed their eyes and chanted, hoping their prayers would somehow ...

Holi, the colorful annual festival that marks the end of winter and beginning of spring, will be celebrated later this month across North Jersey and beyond. Here are some things to know about the ...