We all have seen Radha along with shree Krishna in so many temples and know that they are the embodiment of love and the purest form of love We know that they are divine lovers but many of us do not k ...

In 113-degree heat, thousands of Hindus in Pakistan make a grueling trek that is an act of spiritual devotion and cultural ...

India's architectural history stretches back thousands of years, and scattered across the subcontinent are structures that ...

In 1963 the peacock was declared the National Bird of India because of its rich religious and legendary involvement in Indian traditions The criteria for this choice were many The bird must be welldis ...

Baisakhi stands as a major event throughout North India, especially across the Punjab ... as well as at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. The day's religious observances reinforce the values of ...

Did you know that India’s famous warrior queen ... The entire complex is filled with stupas, monasteries and temples. Of particular importance is the Chaukhandi Stupa, which dates to the Gupta period.

So medieval Tamil temples really are some of the most extraordinary relics of a period of profound ... is happening in North Indian Hinduism, for example. In that, in North India, if you think ...

Yet that year, on the other side of the globe, an emperor from southern India was preparing ... art and literature. Medieval Tamil metalwork, produced for Chola-period temples, is perhaps the ...

Its wall comprises eight niches and another entrance in the north ... India. This group of seven temples is believed to have been built in the 8th-9th century in the Nagar Style, though the local ...

How much do we know about medieval taxation ... on palm leaf and haven’t survived in most of India. In Tamil Nadu, though, we have an extraordinary archive of over 13,000 stone inscriptions on temple ...