(RNS) — Leena Manimekalai’s 2019 film “Maadathy,” about the brutalization of a Dalit girl who becomes a village deity, began with the words, “Behind every deity in India, there is a story of injustice ...

Hinduism, one of the world's oldest and most diverse religions, is rich with a vast array of deities, each representing different aspects of life, nature, and the cosmos. These gods and goddesses play ...

Bridging the East and West, American women have found Hinduism’s powerful divine feminine through the art of sacred dance.

Hindu devotees offer flowers to gods and goddesses as part of worship rituals. Dinodia Photo/Corbis Documentary via Getty images In preparation for the many Hindu fall festivals such as Diwali, ...

(RNS) A new public campaign in India uses powerful images of three Hindu goddesses with bruised faces to raise awareness about violence against women. The ad campaign is titled “Abused Goddesses” and ...

She is perhaps the most powerful goddess in Hindu mythology, as feared as she is revered, with millions of worshippers honoring her during ritual 10-day festivals every autumn and spring. She is ...

Embassy Row — otherwise known as Massachusetts Avenue — in Washington, D.C., is decorated with flags of every nation, flying in front of impressive embassy buildings. In front of the embassies, there ...

It's fairly common practice for painters to imitate photographs. There's even a term for it: Photorealism. But you don't see the inverse as often — that is, people trying to make photos look like ...

BANGALORE, India — An Australian couple has said they were harassed at a restaurant in southern India by people who objected to a tattoo of a Hindu goddess on the man’s leg. A crowd gathered around ...