Child Marriages is a term used to describe marriages between children. It was common practice in many households until far into the twentiet...

This phrase refers to females who were married as youngsters and whose husbands (whether older men or younger boys) died before they reached...

Balakrishna Menon was born in 1915 and died in 1993. He was an ascetic and instructor in modern Hinduism.  Swami Shivananda, whose writings ...

   (b. 1931) Since 1964, Shri Chinmoy has spent most of his time speaking to Western audiences as a modern Hindu teacher and missionary.  He...

    This is a smoking implement. The chillum is a graded cylinder of baked clay that is typically approximately six inches long and has a di...

Kamla Bhasin, a well-known feminist activist, died in the early hours of Saturday (25th of September 2021) after a long battle with cancer. ...

The US states of Texas, Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, and Massachusetts, have declared October to be Hindu Traditions Month, citing Hinduism...

    A Chauri is used to brush flies and insects away by whisking.  The name comes from the term "chamara," which refers to a yak...

  ("shadow snatcher") In the Ramayana, the first of the two major Hindu epics, a monster.  Chayagrahi lives by the sea and capture...

    The Dharma Shastras, or treatises on religious obligation, define the samskaras of early infancy as a collective term (dharma).  Jatakar...

  Chidvilasananda - (b. Malti Shetty, 1955) Swami Muktananda's successor as a modern Hindu teacher.  Muktananda preached a form of spiri...