We have always been so used to paying so much attention to the packaging that the real us was being tossed away. Can the beautiful container ever give the satisfaction that the contained can give?

For centuries, Indians have been told that marriage is not just a tradition it’s a dharma, a sacred duty. But what if ...

His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of water in a clockwise swirl. Others surround him, with some holding the saffron flag of Hinduism, all repeating a centuries-old ritual ...

You are not a conventional spiritual leader. You are married, have conducted padayatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, and have ...

The people of Gujarat understood that Hinduism equals BJP. The people of Gujarat are more religious than people of other ...

Hindu Dharma is very, very modern and boasts of many virtues and values, which today’s world order should acknowledge and ...

One example is the term “Hinduism” itself. It was used first by Charles Grant in a pejorative sense, to dismiss “natives’” religion as crude superstition. Yet within a few years that ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

A Tory MP accused No 10 of a "disappointing lack of knowledge" about the traditions of Hinduism. Hundreds of artefacts were looted from Nepal as it opened up from the 1960s to the 1980s.