Discover Atla Tadde, a festival for married Hindu women, celebrating love and tradition with fasting and rituals.

Dussehra coincides with two other festivals, Navratri and Durga Puja, with Dussehra marking the end of their celebrations, ...

Hindu devotees immersed idols in a river for the Durga Puja festival. Worshippers gathered to perform rituals and prayers before dipping the deity's statue into the water in Bihar, India, on October ...

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Animal activists have long objected to ceremonial uses of elephants, citing distress in the animals caused by crowds and ...

In the heart of a local turmeric farm, chants of prayer echoed over cheerful conversation and the smell of authentic Indian ...

This year's colorful Durga puja was a defiant expression of faith amid chaotic aftermath of political upheavals ...

In Muslim-majority Bangladesh, vast crowds celebrate the biggest Hindu festival of the year under tight security, after a ...

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Kanchan Paul is deep in concentration as he paints the right eye on a clay idol of the Hindu goddess ...

GUWAHATI, India -- Kanchan Paul is deep in concentration as he paints the right eye on a clay idol of the Hindu goddess Durga ...