Their names used to reverberate through early morning prayers, fire rites, and sacred chants. As guardians of rain, fire, dawn, and justice, they were the lifeblood of ancient Indian devotion. But ...

Four Indian statues on display during a ceremony marking the repatriation of over 200 artifacts to the Indian government, at Blair House in Washington, Monday, June 6, 2016. Statues from left are ...

Belief in God may inspire moral life, but belief is not itself proof of goodness. To many Indians, the suggestion that ...

While a ceremonial fusillade of firecrackers sounded outside, a black-capped Brahmin pandit recited Sanskrit prayers last week in a factory conference hall at Poona, outside Bombay. It was the time of ...