About a month ago, a video emerged of an Indian teacher telling students to slap a 7-year-old classmate. The boy had gotten his multiplication tables wrong, but his real crime was being an Indian ...

The sun glistens on the Ganges as Hindu devotees bathe in the holy river’s waters, and the Muslim call to prayer reverberates through the dusty air. Varanasi, an ancient city of temples and gods, is ...

Kash Patel was born to Indian parents of Gujarati heritage and raised in a Hindu household. His family, having immigrated to the United States, maintained cultural and religious traditions, exposing ...

The United Nations counts international migrants as people of any age who live outside their country (or in some cases, territory) of birth – regardless of their motives for migrating, their length of ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing Bhoomi Pujan (ground-breaking ceremony) of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, India, Aug. 5, 2020. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Press Information Bureau-Prime Minister’s ...

AHMEDABAD, India — Hindu nationalism, once a fringe ideology in India, is now mainstream. Nobody has done more to advance this cause than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one of India’s most beloved and ...

VARANASI, India — On a recent Friday afternoon in this holy city in northern India, scooters, pedestrians and cycle rickshaws jostled for space on a street leading to the city's most famous Hindu ...

At a conference in India last month, a Hindu extremist dressed head-to-toe in the religion’s holy color, saffron, called on her supporters to kill Muslims and “protect” the country. “If 100 of us ...

Hindu New Year, also known as ‘Nav varsh’ or ‘Nav Samvatsar’, is the beginning of a New Year for people who follow Sanatan Dharma or Hinduism. The Hindu Nav Varsh falls on a date that is decided ...

The killing of a Hindu tailor by two Muslim men in Rajasthan, India has sparked chilling calls for revenge against the country’s already marginalized Muslim population. The gruesome death of Kanhaiya ...

Bring out the sparkle and light up those lamps; it's time for Diwali celebrations. Millions of Hindus and South Asians across the globe will celebrate the annual Festival of Lights on Monday, Oct. 20, ...

In the summer of 2019, the actor Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub won a role on “Tandav,” an Indian political drama being produced by Amazon Prime. The title was clever. In Hindu lore, the tandav is the dance ...