Her portrayals of Durga Devi and Manikkavasagar remain etched in audience memory.She has also choreographed and trained students for dance performances at many prominent schools in Colombo, including ...

On Diwali, when most celebrate the arrival of Goddess Lakshmi, the Bengali community lights up the night in honour of Kali—a fierce protector and mother. This tradition, with roots in the 16th century ...

The annual festival at the historic Sri Durga Parameshwari Temple in Kateel concluded with a visually stunning climax, marked by the exhilarating "Thootedhara" ritual on its final day.

The last four queens ruled successively. Somala Devi, queen of the Chahamana Dynasty of Sakambhari, issued coins in her name. She ruled in the 13th century A.D. On her coins were either a bull or a ...

4. Sri Lakshmi Narayani Devi Temple Area: 404,686 Location: Thirumalaikodi, Vellore, India Sri Lakshmi Narayani Devi Temple is also known as the Golden Temple because it is covered with pure gold. It ...

Made To Be Burnt, But Raavan Effigies Tell Many Stories Every year, after Rakshabandhan in August, for three months, the entire stretch of two-three kilometres in Tatarpur comes alive. On the ...

By 6 pm, more than 60,000 devotees had visited the temple to seek blessings from Goddess Kanaka Durga, who was adorned in the Annapoorna Devi avatar on this auspicious day of the nine-day Dasara ...

Sometimes what is not perceived in the business-as-usual patterns becomes accessible in another way. It is perhaps apt that the title of a book on a personal pilgrimage of discovery and connection to ...

Contemporary painting by Srinivasa Reddy N. Credit: Ramsingh Museum. Frame by frame Given the breadth and size of the museum, one wonders how Singh developed the method to accumulate and organise it.

Nav Durga are the nine aspects of the Durga Shakti which act as a shield to ward off all negativities. Devi Durga, in Her form as Mahishasura Mardini, is the destroyer of Mahisha.

Maharashtra’s Siya Sawant and Odisha’s Mohammad Basha became the fastest athletes of the 6th Khelo India Youth Games while Bihar’s Durga Singh and Rahul Sarnaliya of Uttarakhand improved on the girls ...