The Delhi High Court on 20 January permitted police to seize the paintings after a lawyer named Amita Sachdeva complained the artworks – featuring Hindu deities Ganesha and Hanuman alongside nud ...

The statements caused anger among certain members of the Hindu community, leading officials to announce a warning for enhanced social media surveillance. महाकुम्भ मेले व ...

The paintings showed Hindu gods Hanuman and Ganesha holding nude female characters in hands and on the lap. The orders came on the complaint filed by Delhi High Court advocate Amita Sachdeva ...

Husain, who died in 2011 aged 95, often faced backlash for the depictions of nude Hindu gods in his paintings. The Delhi Art Gallery (DAG), which hosted the exhibition, denied any wrongdoing and ...

“The ease and enthusiasm with which Hindus in India were able to appropriate that term [Hinduism] shows that they already had a sense that they had this value. It’s just that the term could be applied ...

Hinduism has through the years gone through several layers of evolution. As European power grew in the Indian subcontinent in the 16th and 17th centuries, the religion underwent yet another process of ...

Pillai then went onto fondly recall some personal anecdotes looking at his ancestral temple in Kerala that houses various deities including major Hindu gods as well as tribal and Dalit gods, ...

Explanation: Shiva, also known as Mahadeva, is one of the gods in the holy trinity of gods in Hinduism. He is considered the destroyer in Hindu mythology. Explanation: Laxmi is considered the ...

A book about Hinduism which begins with a maharaja’s ... And as some priests engaged with Brahmins, they found that the trappings of many gods were simply a humanised vision of something more ...

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while tractors turned into chariots for life-size idols of Hindu gods rolled behind them accompanied by elephants. Pilgrims exulted in the beat of drums and honking horns. The festival is rooted ...