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How Vivekananda introduced America to Hinduism

September 11, 2025 2:01 pm

In a landmark speech on September 11, 1893 at the Parliament of World’s Religions in Chicago, a 30-year-old Vivekanda preached about religious tolerance and called for an end to fanaticism

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Pluralism is the essence of Hinduism. Is it now becoming more performative?

February 21, 2025 2:09 pm

For Hindus, there has never been a single way to practice faith.

Mahakumbh 2025: Actor Mamta Kulkarni becomes 'Mahamandleshwar' of Kinnar Akhara, assumes a new name: 'This was the order of Mahadev, Maha Kaali'

January 25, 2025 4:56 pm

Know all about the significance of being a mahamandleshwar and why it matters

On Pinarayi’s remark that Narayana Guru ‘reconstructed’ Sanatana Dharma, BJP's retort: 'Will he have courage to...'

January 02, 2025 1:31 am

Speaking at an event, CM said Guru 'upheld a secular humanistic worldview' and 'any attempt to confine that within the framework of Sanatana Dharma will be an insult to him'

Tavleen Singh writes: It is time secularism is brought back into play as a valid and fine idea

December 08, 2024 10:17 pm

But can this happen now that ordinary Hindus behave like holy warriors? On social media, while writing this piece, I spotted a video of a Hindu teenager beating three small Muslim children with a slipper and ordering them to say Jai Shree Ram.

I was told to ‘go back to Portugal’. Is this Indian modernity now?

November 17, 2024 6:04 am

If my story is unique to me then it need not go any further. But I believe it is symptomatic of the mindsets that have grown not just across the country but also in families and neighbourhoods

Art and Culture with Devdutt Pattanaik | The significance of Vedas and their rituals

August 30, 2024 12:01 pm

The three primary Vedas - Rig Veda, Sama Veda and Yajur Veda - were part of public rituals. Why was the Atharva Veda neither seen as part of the primary Vedic canon nor as part of public rituals?

Kanwar yatra and the perils of nostalgic Hinduism

July 28, 2024 6:53 pm

Current reinvention of Hinduism — in terms of purity and impurity — owes a great deal to transformation in the cultures of nostalgia. It breaks the connection between actual conditions of life and its romanticised version, and those who are expected to take part in have no role in its propagation