The birthday of Lord Krishna, which falls on Tuesday, September 4, is known as "Janmashtami" and is a major Hindu holiday. Here are our top 10 links about the dark-skinned ... Read More

Over 800 million people around the world worship Lord Krishna daily. Yet very few people know about Krishna's astonishing personal life. Here's a new biographical novel about the early years ... Read More

Raksha Bandhan or Rakhi falls on August 28. This popular Hindu festival - which gets its name from the sacred thread that sisters tie on their brothers wrist - marks the brother-sister ... Read More

The coming weeks mark some high-spirited celebrations in Southern India. People in the coastal state of Kerala go crazy over the state festival of Onam, with 10 days of feasting, ... Read More

Find out what the stars foretell in this Vedic astrology column by renowned Hindu astologer 'Jyotish' Asish Kumar Das. Just select your zodiac sign and read about your forecast for ... Read More

There's nothing strictly sacred or spiritual about it, but applying mehendi or henna is considered beneficial and lucky, and always regarded as beautiful and blessed. That is perhaps why women ... Read More

Shakespeare divided life into "seven ages". In Hinduism, human life is believed to comprise four stages or "ashramas": The First Ashrama - "Brahmacharya" or the Student Stage The Second Ashrama ... Read More

On the occasion of India's Independence Day, which falls on August 15, we present what prominent scholars, historians and authors said about India. Here're top 10 quotations from Will Durant, ... Read More

Sri Aurobindo, the Hindu saint, scholar and visionary showed us how to attain an inner self-development and an elevated consciousness through his life and immortal literary works. A tribute to ... Read More

Later this month, Hindus will celebrate the bond between brothers and sisters in the Raksha Bandhan festival. Here's a step-by-step guide to help you make a decorated Rakhi wrist band ... Read More

The great Indian saint Sri Ramakrishna explained the concept of God in his own inimitable way. Here're are some famous quotations about the true nature and infinite forms of the ... Read More

Swami Sivananda speaks about dream symbolism at length in his book "The Philosophy of Dreams." In this excerpt, he analyses the different characters, objects and emotions that appear in our ... Read More

The Rig Veda manuscripts of Pune, Western India, have been selected for inscription in UNESCO's "Memory of the World" Register 2007. The Rig Veda, the oldest among the four Vedas, ... Read More