MUMBAI, India (AP) — A large idol of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha sat in the back of an open truck traveling along a busy Mumbai street, dwarfing other objects on the road. Hundreds of ...

The 122 paintings comprising ‘Indian Skies’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art offer witness that in the centuries that masters like Michelangelo, Vermeer, and Velázquez were working in Europe, hands ...

In 1892 Bal Gangadhar Tilak began the tradition of extending Ganesh Chathurthi festivities around the immersion (visarjan) of Ganapati idols in water bodies for 10 days. Over the last 132 years, this ...

A massive crowd of devotees danced and followed giant-sized Ganesha idols which were paraded through the streets on Saturday before their ritual immersion in the sea that symbolizes sending the god ...

Visitors will be able to get close to — and even touch — 100 life-size sculptures of Indian elephants which are beginning a cross-country journey. The Great Elephant Migration traveling art exhibition ...

Walk into any Indian temple or flip through a book of Hindu mythology, and you're likely to find yourself face-to-face with a divine figure boasting ten arms, multiple heads, or riding a majestic ...