At the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Vivekananda presented a paternal, all-inclusive vision of India that made America seem young and provincial. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos by ...

Secularism, introduced into the Constitution in 1976, was intended as a principle of governance rather than a personal ...

Last week in a Manhattan vaudeville theatre a man was speaking. “Nietzsche’s,” he said, “is the present philosophy of the Occidental world, with its gospel of self-assertion and self-expression, ...

Indian Hindus, who at the time would not have defined themselves as Hindus, brought their spiritual practices with them, according to Alexander Rocklin, assistant professor of religious studies at ...

(The Conversation) — The government’s use of the Hindi word for ‘India’ revives debates over whether Hindi should be the national language – and reopens some old wounds. (The Conversation) — When ...

Lunar Eclipse is one of the most-awaited celestial events in the world. It happens when Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon and such events have long been associated with spiritual, traditional, ...

In a survey conducted between July 2022 and January 2023, the Pew Research Center found that two-thirds of Asian American adults actively engage in charitable giving, either in the United States, ...