How old are the goddesses of India? It is extremely difficult to answer this question. Maybe it started in the Stone Age, when man equated the Earth to a goddess or the womb of a woman ...

There is public outrage in India over the depiction of a Hindu goddess that critics say disparages the religious figure. The image appears in a poster promoting the new short film Kaali by ...

"Wherever the Goddess has touched the earth with her feet, there is born a sacred place." In India, the divine is not a metaphor — it is a presence. Nowhere is this more alive than in the ...

Goddess worship is one of the longest standing religious traditions in Hinduism. Arthur Basham, a well-known historian of India wrote: The theme of shakti perhaps grew out of a conflict and eventual ...

The goddess has faded from popular memory ... He asks: In many parts of India, especially in the east, Sasthi is the patron deity of childbirth, infant mortality and welfare.

This vast, ornate building is a replica of the world's largest temple dedicated to the goddess Meenakshi in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The complex is the only temple outside of India ...