Jai Prakash: Pundit at Schenectady Hindu Temple and college student. Background: Born in Albany, raised in Loudonville. After graduating from Shaker High School in 2002, he got an associate degree ...

In Hindu dharma, life is seen as a sacred journey marked by sixteen important samskaras or purification rites. These rituals guide a person from birth to death with spiritual awareness. Among them is ...

“People think anybody can recite the Bhagavata [Purana] and become famous,” Hemant Mani, 42, grumbled over the phone from his monastery in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. “Social media is giving people the ...

Indian Christians grapple with heresies and cultural confusion. CT reached out to three Christian leaders from Bengaluru, Chennai, and New Delhi to learn what modern heresies are widespread in India ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — A major spiritual event is coming to the Quad Cities as the Quad City Hindu Temple hosts the Chaturveda Maha Yajna, a multi-day Hindu ritual that organizers say is the first of its ...

Complaints from religious and political leaders have forced the scrapping of a requirement for Hindu scriptures to be made available to students in India's Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir.