For the people of Orissa, Shiva - one of the three central deities of Hinduism, the god of paradoxes, the god who forever creates and destroys - was the lord of their land. In Shiva all opposites ...

India is a land of rich heritage and cultural diversity which is home to some of the most magnificient statues in the world.

Maha Shivaratri is a day that all the devotees wait for. It was on this auspicious day that Lord Shiva promised to be the ...

Lying on a hillock in a village of the same name, Mangeshi temple is one of the most popular, richest and largest Hindu ... prominent statue of the bull god Nandi that was ridden by Shiva.