CHENNAI: In the 7th and 8th centuries, the ancient hymns of Thevaram were recited by priests and filled the temples of Shiva in south India. Today, they are a p ...

and a philosophical and social movement, Bhakti impacted the everyday life of Indians in a way that has no parallel in the entire history of the subcontinent. The manifestation of Bhakti may have ...

An early and key proponent of the Bhakti movement, he is also seen as a social ... Akhara Parishad On Mauni Amavasya Snan of independent India’s first Kumbh, held in 1954, an unprecedented ...

This year, the Maha Kumbh, or Poorna Kumbh, is being held in Prayagraj. Celebrated every 12 years, it is one of the world's largest religious events ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s visit to India last week highlighted the vast potential for collaboration between the two most populous democracies in the Global South. As neighbours ...

The Tamil people have given India and the world some of its most ... the evolution and spread of Tamil culture through the Bhakti movement, and the arrival of Christianity and Islam.

Environmental concerns were just one part of the ... in the global south. Anthropologist Jason Hickel cites figures such as Sri Lankan philosopher Ananda Coomaraswamy, Indian economist J.C ...

He said followers of ISKCON, a global bhakti movement founded on the Bhagavad Gita teachings, across the world are connected to each other by their devotion to Lord Krishna.

There is no denying that the Assamese Ramayana became an important addendum to the Bhakti movement in Assam at ... discourse centring around the Indian epics even after hundreds of years since ...

American Indian ... Movement member to serve the rest of his sentence on home confinement. Peltier was convicted of murdering two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in ...