How young readers navigate the balance between digital distractions and the enriching escape of literature at The Hindu Lit ...

THE MYSTIC MASSEUR (215 pp.)—V.S. Naipaul—Vanguard ($3.50). In his two-story concrete mansion in Fuente Grove, Trinidad, Mystic Ganesh Ramsumair, B.A., sat in the lavatory pondering his future. When ...

Professor P.R. Mukund and alumnus Ajay Pasupuleti traveled to India in November with precious cargo: two bound copies of the digitally restored Sarvamoola Grantha, a 700-year-old sacred Hindu text ...

Penguin Books India has agreed to recall and pulp all copies in India of The Hindus: An Alternative History by U.S. scholar Wendy Doniger, raising concerns over freedom of expression in the world’s ...

The original cover for Doniger’s book, right, was racier than the new version, left. Credit: Speaking Tiger/Penguin Books India I was under the benign influence of “Gates of the Lord,” the Art ...

This month%2C publisher announced after four years of litigation%2C it was withdrawing %27The Hindus.%27 A Hindu fundamentalist group that opposes sex education in Indian schools filed the complaint.

Controversy over books on Hinduism by religion scholar Wendy Doniger continues to grow. Doniger's The Hindus: An Alternative History, first published in 2009, was recalled and pulped by Penguin Books ...

Krishna's childhood nickname was "Butter Thief." Shiva likes to get away from it all every now and then. Ganesha has a sweet tooth, so be sure to share your candy with him. And whatever you do, don't ...

Hindu mythology can be considered as a deeply rich and awe-inspiring universe of stories. The universe consists Gods, Vedic ...

Sanjay Patel is no stranger to the fantastic. As an animator, he knows about rats with culinary dreams, furry blue monsters and armies of evil grasshoppers. But he says that some of the most fantastic ...