Since the age of 4, Radha Pandya, 17, of Edison, has been perfecting a 3,000-year-old Indian dance to continue the legacy of her culture and ensure it is passed down for generations to come. The dance ...

This week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art finds itself in the middle of a rash of stories about returned antiquities. First up was a looted idol of the goddess Durga, or Mahishasurmardini, which the ...

The British Museum in London has often been accused of cultural imperialism and colonialism, particularly by the U.K.’s ethnic minorities. There is a bitter dispute about many famous pieces acquired ...

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Basoda or Sheetala Ashtami will fall on March 9 or 11 this year, according to some. The name comes from ‘basiyaura’, meaning stale, a word better known as ‘baas ...

“या देवी सर्वभूतेषु शक्तिरूपेण संस्थिता। नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः॥” In the temples of India and Nepal, Devi is not always worshipped as a distant idol carved in stone. In some sacred ...