This is the first installment in RD’s latest series, “What in the What??,” in which our experts offer insight into religious political movements currently shaping our world. Some contemporary Hindu ...

NEW DELHI, INDIA — Perhaps the most striking first impression for any visit to India, the world’s most populous nation and most complicated democracy, is the traffic. Even in the nation’s capital the ...

Last week, a Hindu nationalist group celebrated its centenary and its remarkable trajectory. It was once banned for its association with the killing of India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi. Now ...

(RNS) — Joining a motley crew of economic libertarians, Trump acolytes, moderate Republicans and old-school racists at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C., earlier this month was ...

Organisers say 3,800 volunteers participated in Thursday's event [BBC] The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Hindu nationalist organisation whose work played a large role in propelling Indian ...

Once meant to teach unity in diversity, Republic Day tableaux now increasingly foreground Hindu symbols as national symbols, ...

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who claimed victory for his alliance in an election seen as a referendum on his decade in power, is a popular but polarizing leader who has presided over a ...

India has seen a surge in Hindu nationalism and violence against Christians in recent years, especially in places governed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AYODHYA, India (AP) — Under grey skies, ...