Huge crowds of devotees gathered across India this month to celebrate the Hindu festival Ganesh Chaturthi, marking the birth of the deity Ganesha, the elephant-headed, round-bellied god of prosperity ...

(RNS) — Outside my fourth-floor window, the sounds of devotional chanting, lively music and drum beats echoed in the narrow street below. It was Ganesh Chaturthi, a 10-day Hindu festival that earlier ...

On India's west coast, revelers hoist up statues of an elephant-headed god, and parade them toward the Arabian Sea. They sing and chant, and hand out food to bystanders. For 10 days, they perform ...

Lord Ganesha is one of the most loving God in Hinduism. He is known as the first worshipped God and without worshipping him first, no auspicious event and work can be done. Individuals can appease ...

A 6-year-old boy in the Indian state of Punjab is worshiped by villagers as the reincarnation of the Hindu god Ganesha. Pranshu, who is unable to walk properly, was born with an unexplained medical ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. One of the most easily identifiable deities from the ...

A baby girl with a facial deformity is being worshiped as an incarnation of the Hindu god Ganesha in an Indian village. The girl, who has not yet been named, was born March 26 in a village in Aligarth ...