Kim Kardashian is getting called out by people of the Hindu faith for cultural appropriation after participating in a photoshoot that used a sacred symbol. The "om" is considered one of the most ...

We often walk past temples, visit homes, or attend ceremonies in India and see beautiful, often mysterious symbols. From the spiraling Om on prayer beads to the geometric Yantras in rituals — they’re ...

(Bloomberg) -- Rishi Sunak made history as the first Chancellor of the Exchequer to celebrate Diwali, lighting candles on the steps of his official residence at No. 11 Downing Street. Two years later, ...

The beaded Hindu decoration hanging over Akhil Tripathi’s door has been there since 2009. It was a present from his daughter and was blessed by a Hindu priest before the former University of ...

A Hindu swastika decorates the New York patio of a home where a Hindu wedding ceremony unfolds. The curving swastika with its rounded corners is an ancient symbol of good fortune and often used on ...

The very idea of protecting nascent beauty from the evil that you may bear in your eye, dates not just back to your grandmother’s tongue. Earliest sightings of these symbols exist in the form of ...

Even scrawled on a wooden fence or abandoned building's wall, a swastika freezes the heart. For most Americans, it's an instinctive reminder of hatred and a historic horror. But centuries before the ...

The past is ever present. Each generation makes meaning for itself in the present by referring to history — whether in the recent parliamentary debate on the ‘mutilation’ of Vande Mataram, the ...