Torn from worship and reduced to spectacle, temple dance lost its sanctity to colonialism, reform, and exploitation.

Kerala grapples with a mounting drug crisis, surpassing Punjab in drug-related cases, with both urban and rural areas ...

His face is everywhere: on walls, road signs, posters, T-shirts and tote bags hawked in the temple’s bustling ... stage hosts a revolving door of followers. An old woman in a pink sari is ...

These historical trade arteries connect cities and castles, palaces and pagodas and they provide easy transport routes ...

It was supposed to stop with Ayodhya. But Kashi, Mathura, Sambhal and a flurry of other mandir-masjid disputes signal a new ...

This was not a luxury train, but even here, as in Indian society as a whole, the distinctions between the haves and the have-nots were clear.

The Irinjadappilly Sree Krishna Temple in Kerala introduces a lifelike mechanical elephant, replacing live animals in its rituals. Standing 11 feet tall and weighing 800 kg, this innovation marks ...

A man was shot with an air gun during a clash that broke out amid a temple festival in Chembrasseri in Kerala's northern Malappuram district, police said on Saturday. Thirty-two-year-old Lukman ...

In a show of communal harmony and brotherhood, the Manakkad Juma Masjid in Thiruvananthapuram opened its doors and provided ... deity of the Attukal Bhagavathy temple on Thursday, braving the ...

Kerala’s scorching summer has not deterred thousands of women ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers from their day-and-night strike in front of the State secretariat in ...

A group of male protested against the long standing practice of removing upper clothes before entering the Pathanamthitta situated Lord Ayyappa temple. They entered the temple on Sunday ...

Those appointed in the post of Kazhakam undertake duties including garland-making and associated works in the temple. Kerala State Human Rights Commission member V. Geetha on Monday (March 10 ...