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 ...

Hindus are the world’s fourth-largest religious group, after Christians, Muslims, and the religiously unaffiliated. According to Pew Research Center (Hackett et al., 2025), the number of Hindus ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing Bhoomi Pujan (ground-breaking ceremony) of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, India, Aug. 5, 2020. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Press Information Bureau-Prime Minister’s ...

Every major religion speaks of miracles, divine interventions, and extraordinary events. Yet Hinduism often becomes the most questioned, analyzed, and debated tradition of all. The reason isn’t ...

Hinduism gained ground in the region in the early centuries of the Common Era because it provided elites with a fully-fleshed metaphysical package along with literacy. The eight-armed statue of the ...

Bengal has a rich history of Hindu socio-religious and nationalist organisations dating back to the 19th century — the groups that focused on spiritual reform, social service, and also revolutionary ...

India’s population has more than tripled in the six decades following Partition, from 361 million (36.1 crore) people in the 1951 census to more than 1.2 billion (120 crore) in 2011. As of 2020, India ...