Some stay only days, others wait decades, but the crowds of elderly Indian Hindu devotees are calm and confident that their ...
A Hindu activist attempted to "purify" the Taj Mahal using cow dung and water from the Ganges River (Ganga Jal), claiming ...
Some stay only days, others wait decades, but the crowds of elderly Indian Hindu devotees are calm and confident that their ...
A year after extremists forced Muslim neighbours from their homes in India, victims live in despair as their tormentors seek ...
The Water for Life Decade was started by the UN in 2005 in an effort to raise awareness of the importance of taking better ...
To French colonials, the lake was known as Grand Bassin. For Mauritians, it became Ganga Talao, a spiritual link with India’s ...
Some stay only days, others wait decades, but the crowds of elderly Indian Hindu devotees are calm and confident that their ...
"Uttarakhand is the holy land of Hindus," Tomar said, referring to the shrines around the sacred headwaters of the Ganges river in the state, an area larger than Switzerland. "We will not let it ...
Smouldering funeral pyres line the Ganges river in India's holy city of Varanasi, where thousands of Hindu faithful come each year to spend their final days. Dying beside the banks of the Ganges ...