Society & Culture

Diwali is a festival anchored in the sampradaya traditions and practices of Hindu dharma. You cannot selectively tease out, separate, dislocate elements and expect them to be stand-alone features...

This Diwali, as we celebrate the festival of lights with our family & friends, spare a thought for those associated with the firecracker industry....

The term 'Love Jihad' was heard for the first time in the country in the year 2009 when several cases of conversion were reported...

Volvo joined the lecture-Hindus-on-Hindu-festivals bandwagon when it recently asked Hindus to celebrate a 'pollution-free' Diwali. The Swedish vehicle maker, now owned by China's Zhejiang Geely...

After showing an inter-faith baby shower ceremony that struck a discordant note with the lived reality of countless Hindus, Tata group company Tanishq is...

The Hindus revere Shakti. She is prakriti, the pure energy that manifests purusha, the pure being, or consciousness. Mata Sati, one such revered form...

In the second part of the interview, Swami Mitrananda ji of Chinmaya Mission, Chennai, talks about  recontextualising Vedanta in a contemporary context and reiterates...

In yet another chilling reminder of how parties that are the epitome of feudal (aka casteist), parochial, criminal, corrupt and bigoted politics are elevated...

Mathura recently witnessed a well choreographed secular stunt in which a Hindu temple's sanctity was violated. On 29 October, two Muslim men, Faisal Khan and...

Is it time for moviemakers to reflect on content shown in movies and web-series after Tauseef, the murderer of college student Nikita Tomar, claimed...