The architectural landscape of India is filled with breathtaking monuments, but stepwells, known locally as baolis or vavs, ...

Designed by 12 Southeast Indian architects from Mahabalipuram, India — a famous town known for its 7th- and 8th-century Hindu monuments — and located in the rural community of Southwest ...

A patchwork of spirituality, craftsmanship, history, and culture, India's seven wonders triumph even in the modern world.

AYODHYA, India (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday opened a controversial Hindu temple built on the ruins of a historic mosque in the northern city of Ayodhya, in a political ...

Varanasi, an ancient city of temples and gods, is India’s spiritual capital. And here, in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political stronghold, tensions between Hindus and Muslims are escalating.

Millions in India are celebrating Holi. Here's what the Hindu festival of colors is all about. By Arshad R. Zargar Updated on: March 25, 2024 / 10:15 PM EDT / CBS News ...

Authorities in Nagpur, India imposed an indefinite curfew in parts of the city after clashes ensued over demands by Hindu nationalist groups to demolish the tomb of a 17th-century Muslim Mughal ruler.

GUJARAT, India (RNS) — In western India, where thousands of monks once worshipped in caves chiseled into the rocky hills, a fight is on to keep Hindu chauvinists from erasing a 2,000-year-old ...

A senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the northern city of Prayagraj.

A devotee garlands a senior Hindu holy man walking in a procession, a day before the 45-day-long Maha Kumbh festival, in Prayagraj, India, on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025.

The B.J.P. and the R.S.S. conceive of India as an explicitly Hindu nation, despite the fact that the country has a population of more than two hundred million Muslims.

Though Western readers associate the term more with Taliban-ruled Afghanistan than with 21st century India, honor killings are shockingly frequent in villages in the northern and northwestern ...