Hindu Festivals
Maha Kumbh Mela Prayag 2025
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Hindu Festivals
Six Hindu Festivals!
JOYOUS OCCASIONS THAT ARE THE HEART AND SOUL OF SANATANA DHARMA Hinduism is celebratory by nature. Hindus miss no opport…
Spiritual Life
Join in Nallur Temple’s Awesome Annual Festival
Every year in the fall, tens of thousands of Hindus and others come to participate in all or part of […]
Spiritual Life
Embodying the Goddess
Vibrant traditional dress brings the Mayana Kollai’s fierce traditions to life Story By: Padma KrishnanAll Photos By: An…
Temples & Pilgrimage
The Ganga Water Pilgrimage
Yearly in mid-summer, millions of Hindus walk to Haridwar in the Kanvar Yatra to collect and carry back Gangajal for [&h…
Youth
Dharma Defenders in America
The Hindu American Foundation’s Dharma Ambassador Certification Program helps graduates explain the religion convincingl…
Global Dharma
Global Dharma
Grandparent Uses Modern Media to Pass on Her Faith American Hindu parents and grandparents are grappling with how to kee…
Spiritual Life
Ram Janmabhoomi
Let the Pilgrimages Begin! In the sacred land where flows the Sarayu River, Ram Lala has made His divine return [&…
Spiritual Life
Seven Hindu Festivals!
JOYOUS OCCASIONS THAT ARE THE HEART AND SOUL OF SANATANA DHARMA Hinduism is celebratory by nature. Hindus miss no opport…
History
Himalayan Village Celebrates Ramayana
Perhaps the most ancient portrayal of the epic is celebrated yearly by the villages of Saloor-Dungra, high in the Himala…
Hindu Festivals
Nepal’s Grand Mela to Lord Vishnu
Join us for a month-long celebration of sadhana in Nepalís Kathmandu Valley By Nikki Thapa & Rajeev Gurung, Nepal&nb…
By Young Writers
Join Us for Ganesha Chaturthi
It’s one of our favorite holidays, bringing us all together as we prepare for and celebrate the advent of the […]
By Young Writers
King Shivaji’s Fort Comes to America
Kids in Maharashtra—and now California—build mud forts during Diwali in honor of the great warrior’s victories hundreds …
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Ganesha’s Island Birthday
Come with us to the Spiritual Park in Mauritius, where thousands gather for Ganesha Chaturthi—hopefully with the worst o…
Hindu Festivals
India: Music as an Expression of Soft Power
The annual Chennai Music Season is a prime driver by which India’s sophisticated musical tradition influences culture on…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Mauritius Mahasivaratri
Savita Tiwari takes us on her personal pilgrimage to the sacred lake known as Ganga Talao during the island’s exuberant …
Hindu Festivals
Festivals: The 2016 Ujjain Kumbha Mela: A Gallery
ARUN MISHRA Sacred celebrations: Devotees perform Kshipra arati at Ram Ghat in the evening FESTIVALS THE 2016 UJJAIN KUM…
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Kumbha Mela 2015: Nashik
KUMBHA MELA 2015: NASHIK ______________________ Photographer Arun Mishra takes us to the bathing festival ______________…
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Celebration: Balinese Festival Finds Home in Germany
CELEBRATION Balinese Festival Finds Home in Germany ______________________ Devotees from far and near gathered in Hambur…
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Observances: Nepal’s Dynamic Indra Festival
ALL PHOTOS BY THOMAS KELLY Invoking divine powers: Indra’s elephant dances through the streets in search of his master O…
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Festival: Bali’s Annual Day of Silence
In Bali, the start of a new year is not marked by fireworks or a ten-second countdown; ritual here is […]
Hindu Festivals
Festivals: Navaratri
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Festivals: Thai Pusam
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Festivals: Rama Navami
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Festivals: Holi
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Festivals: Mahasivaratri
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Festivals: Diwali
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Festivals: Skanda Sashti
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Festivals: Pancha Ganapati
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Festivals: Sankranti or Pongal
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Festivals: Hindu New Year
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Festivals: Ganesha Chaturthi
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Festivals: Krishna Jayanti
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Festivals: Guru Purnima
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Festivals: Varalakshmi Vrata
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Festivals: Vaikunta Ekadashi
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Navaratri
With Rajiv Malik, New Delhi; Harish Bansh Jha, Nepal; Lakshmi Sridharan, Chennai No other major religion of the world ac…
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Daddy, Do We Get Toys for Christmas, too?
By Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Daddy, why don’t we have Christmas? What do we do? Don’t we get presents,…
Hindu Festivals
Siva’s Great Night in Mauritius
By Gilles Flament Every year thousands of Hindu pilgrims converge on Grand Bassin, the holy lake in the hills of [&helli…
Hindu Festivals
Holy Festivals
When it comes to Hindu festivals, Nepal rules. they celebrate 19 a year on their official calendar, three of them [&hell…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Lord Hanuman’s Festival
By GITANJALI CHAK These days, the mercury hovers around a scorching 113 degrees Fahrenheit in Lucknow, the capital of th…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Kumbha Mela 2001
Seventy million Hindus from around the world–the largest human gathering in history–worshiped at the conflue…
Temples & Pilgrimage
How the Mela Measured Up
How shall we summarize the mela? like the bottom line of an accounting sheet, numbers get right to the point. […]
Hindu Festivals
Voices From The Mela
The aim should be to establish a kind of life in society by which our whole system of living is […]
Hindu Festivals
How The Media Covered the Mela
Sooner or later, some conscience-struck journalism student will finally send Hinduism Today a copy of “The Journal…
Hindu Festivals
A Mela History
One typical mela pilgrim, an illiterate woman, traveled with her family by crowded bus from West Bengal, slept in the [&…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Chariot of the Gods
Stephen Parmley, Sunithi Narayan and Barbara Goodbody The crowd’s energy builds as the priest begins the recitatio…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Divine Riches
By Choodie Shivaram I visit Melkote a few times every year, as Yoga Narasimha is our family Deity. Yet, we […]
Teaching & Parenting
Women’s day in Nepal
By Sushma Joshi Hinduism Todayhas received reports from Nepal that in 1999, members of the Communist Party of Nepal (Mao…
Hindu Festivals
Home Festivals!
Hinduism is a celebratory religion, and nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the yearly cycle of home [……
Hindu Festivals
All’s Fair
By Krishan Dutt As the sleek diesel-powered Shatabdi express train sped across the barren Rajasthan landscape, I was ent…
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Holi, Caribbean Style
By Visnu Bisram Tens of thousands of jubilant Indo-Caribbeans celebrated Phagwah, the joyous Hindu festival of spring th…
Philosophy & Scripture
Durga’s Delight
In the fall of every year, Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley revels in the colorful ten-day Dasain festival, celebrating th…
Hindu Festivals
Days of the Goddess
The Hindus of Bangladesh are worshippers of Durga Devi, a form of Shakti, the all-powerful Goddess in all Her glory. [&h…
Hindu Festivals
Mumbai Merriment
Excerpted from a 1996 article in India Mail by MAYANK BHATT and VIKRAM DOCTOR Ganesha Visarjana is an increasingly popul…
Hindu Festivals
Bye-Bye Ganesha
It is, of course, the residents of Mumbai who are masters of partying, especially upon the occasion of Lord Ganesha̵…
Hindu Festivals
Kumbha Mela 1998
By M.P. MOHANTY These pilgrims had come from all over India; some of them had been months on the way, […]
Hindu Festivals
Holy Procession
By Nikki Lastreto First in procession on Maha Sivaratri, March 25, came the Naga sadhus of the Juna Akhara, reputed [&he…
Hindu Festivals
Holy Ones
There was no proper map of the sadhu camps available to us, so in the 42¡ celsius (108¡ F) heat, […]
Hindu Festivals
Deadly Melee of Sadhus Mars Mela
The official report is that a hundred holy men were injured but none killed in the clash between two monastic […]
Philosophy & Scripture
Kumbha Mela
With Jono Lineen The tens of millions of Hindus who came to the Kumbha Mela at Haridwar this year were […]
Hindu Festivals
Coping With Crowds
By PRABHA PRABHAKAR BHARDWAJ Senior Indian administration service official J.P. Sharma smiled contentedly as he detailed…
Hindu Festivals
Meet Our Mela Corps
(Please see hard copy for all photographs) The creation of this special issue required a rare and eclectic collaboration…
Philosophy & Scripture
One Pilgrim’s Story
Is it possible to film the Kumbha Mela in all its complex, wild and unruly grandeur? Vancouver director Alan Morinis [&h…
Hindu Festivals
Big-Time Siva Festival
Report by SUNIL P. GOPAL One advantage of running a country is that when there is a problem, you can […]
Philosophy & Scripture
Dipavali Debate
With reports from ANIL MAHABIR, DEVANT MAHARAJ and PARAS RAMOUTAR, Trinidad Each Fall the “Dipavali Village”…
Hindu Festivals
Malaysia’s Piercing Praxis
By Alvin Ung, Associated Press With fish hooks embedded in their backs and spears piercing their cheeks, hundreds of tho…
Hindu Festivals
Riots Fail to Hinder Yatra
By PRABHA PRABHAKAR BHARDWAJ In August 8, 1997, a nationwide strike in Kenya by opposition leaders demanding constitutio…
Hindu Festivals
Guadeloupe Lights Up
By SHARAD SAHAI Journey to Guadeloupe, the twin- island outpost of France in the paradisiacal French West Indies, and yo…
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Bangladesh blessings
By BASHUDEB DHAR, BANGLADESH At the August 4 inauguration of Chittagong’s five-day Janmashtami celebrations, Bangl…