ALAPPUZHA: Six decades since the historic visit of the Dalai Lama to the Karumadikuttan Memorial in Ambalappuzha in 1965, the ...

A Hindu swastika decorates the New York patio of a home where a Hindu wedding ceremony unfolds. The curving swastika with its rounded corners is an ancient symbol of good fortune and often used on ...

Explore "Peacock Power" at the Peranakan Museum, an exhibition showcasing the peacock's role as a symbol of status, religion, ...

On occasion, an opera performance is so pitch-perfect, so theatrical, that the audience asks for more when the final curtain ...

We often use the word “sanctuary” to describe the rooms where we pray, from the cavernous, awe-inspiring architectural ...

Angelina Jolie's back tattoos took center stage when she stepped out in style for the 'Couture' red carpet at Rome's ...

In contrast to the Indian city’s scores of residential towers, its best buildings are lower to the ground — and a flamboyant ...

For the Catholic Church, interreligious dialogue "is not a tactic or a tool, but a way of life -- a journey of the heart that ...

Darjeeling: Mahakal Mandir in Darjeeling has introduced a dress code for women, barring them from wearing short dresses and ...

Archaeologists have discovered South Korea ’s earliest known ice storage chamber at the site of one of the nation’s most ...

For this Halloween scavenger hunt, we scoured this encyclopedic museum for the most haunting works, bloody details and hidden ...

Thailand's Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour and elegance to a postwar revival in the country's monarchy and who, in ...