About a month ago, a video emerged of an Indian teacher telling students to slap a 7-year-old classmate. The boy had gotten his multiplication tables wrong, but his real crime was being an Indian ...

MEERUT, India (RNS) — In February 2024, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi donned scuba gear and dove off a small boat into the Arabian Sea to perform an underwater ceremony in what some ...

VARANASI, India — On a recent Friday afternoon in this holy city in northern India, scooters, pedestrians and cycle rickshaws jostled for space on a street leading to the city's most famous Hindu ...

M.F. Husain faced protests, violent threats and legal action over his nude depictions of Hindu goddesses. Almost 15 years after his death in self-imposed exile, the celebrated painter’s legacy is more ...

IN HIS DECADE in power Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, has centralised the state to an unprecedented extent. Yet his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has failed to attract many voters in the more ...

India is home to some 200 million Muslims, one of the world’s largest Muslim populations but a minority in the predominantly Hindu country. Since India’s independence, Muslims have often faced ...