INDIA, November 7, 2026 (NDTV): Ayodhya lit up with thousands of earthen lamps on Saturday as the city celebrated the 10th edition of Deepotsav, with more than 3 million diyas set to illuminate 56 ghats along the banks of the Saryu River.The grand celebration showcased the city’s rich spiritual and cultural heritage, with the illuminated ghats presenting a spectacular display…
THE NETHERLANDS, November 9, 2026 (NL GTimes): Hindus across the Netherlands marked Diwali, the festival of lights, with temple services and family gatherings on Sunday as the main day of the five-day celebration. Street festivals and public events had taken place in the days before, according to local news reports. The five-day celebration runs from Friday, November 6, through Tuesday,…
KUALA LUMPUR , MALAYSIA, November 6, 2026 (The Malaysian Reserve): Hindus across the country will celebrate Deepavali on Nov 8 with traditional prayers, religious rituals and family gatherings marking the Festival of Lights. Deepavali, also known as Diwali, is one of the most significant celebrations in the Hindu calendar, symbolizing the triumph of good over evil, light over darkness and…
TIRUVANNAMALAI, INDIA, July 1, 2026 (Hinduism Today): Writer Erica Bassani interviews Amma Thiyaneswar, a Tamil woman guru who teaches a tradition called Sivam Yoga. Amma traces the lineage from Lord Siva to Parvati, Nandi and Tirumular and says its teachings have been transmitted orally from guru to guru rather than preserved in written form. She describes Sivam as the unique,…
INDIA, October 28, 2026 (Swarajyamag): The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has ruled that non-Hindus wearing symbols of other religions cannot enter even the premises of Agamic temples unless they declare reverence for the Deity. This widens the earlier rule, under which non-Hindus had to declare faith in the Deity and accept temple customs only to go beyond…
UNITED STATES, October 29, 2026 (The Guardian): UNITUrban Mystic is one of more than a dozen bots on the mobile app Your AI Psychic, which offers live, allegedly psychic readings via chat, video and voice calls as well as palm reading, astrology chart analysis and daily horoscopes. The app works on a coin system: each question costs 4.06 coins to…
THANJAVUR, INDIA, July 1, 2026 (Hinduism Today): Thanjavur painting, a distinctive South Indian devotional art form employing gold foil, stones and raised relief work, continues to be produced by artists who combine centuries-old techniques with modern materials and designs. Award-winning artists Vijayalakshmi Prabhakaran and Marimuthu Uthrapathi explain how the tradition developed under royal patronage and evolved from earlier temple mural…
PAKISTAN, October 29, 2026 (DNA India): In a sharp criticism of Pakistan’s treatment of its religious minorities, diaspora organisation INSIGHT UK on Wednesday placed evidence before the British Parliament exposing how Hindus have been systematically hounded, dispossessed and decimated in Pakistan. Launching its report – The Religious Persecution of Hindus in Pakistan – before the All-Party Parliamentary Group for British…
KAUAI, HAWAII, July 1, 2026 (Hinduism Today): An Educational Insight examines “Positive Discipline,” a system for raising children through encouragement, love and respect rather than physical punishment, blame or shame. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami became concerned about corporal punishment among Hindu families in the 1990s and sought practical methods parents could use to discipline children without violence. He subsequently encountered the…
UNITED STATES, October 27, 2026 (India Currents): July 4 marked the 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence, an occasion to revisit an often-overlooked connection: how events in India influenced both the movement for independence and Britain’s ability to suppress it. Reports of the Bengal famine of 1770 and the East India Company’s conduct circulated in the American colonies, reinforcing…
