M aqbool Fida Husain is India’s best-known modern artist, even though he died 14 years ago, aged 95. He recently became its ...

The Taj Story” is the latest in a slew of pseudo-historical films to emerge from Bollywood that critics say seek to erase ...

A single-volume work makes a bold attempt to capture thousands of years of cultural ferment on the Indian subcontinent.

The dominant political ideology in India today is Hindu nationalism, a spectrum of thought that represents a “New India.” In ...

New Delhi — Hundreds of millions of Hindus celebrated the opening of a grand new temple in the northern India city of Ayodhya on Monday, but the decision by India's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, or Hindu pitcher festival, begins Monday in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj. Officials expect at least 400 million people to visit Prayagraj over the next 45 days. Under ...

Every Indian Muslim knows about the pause: the moment when another Indian, usually a Hindu, hears your name, waits a few seconds, and then, with a furrowed brow or a step back, acts surprised and ...

In the past three years it has grown faster than India as a whole. UP was “once regarded as a sick state”, says Mr Adityanath ...

Delhi • I used to answer the phone with “Salam.” Not anymore. I don’t want people to know I’m a Muslim. There is little that would identify me as Muslim to begin with, aside from my name. I don’t wear ...