The water, scooped up from the holy river Ganges, is destined for the pilgrims’ local temples. And the precious cargo must be ...

According to Tandon and other devotional musicians, the melodic repetition of Vedic mantras, often associated with the many names of the tradition’s various deities, has proved to calm the mind ...

In Hindu music, there are both ancient traditions and contemporary songs. Two main classical music forms–Hindustani, from northern India, and Carnatic, from the south–provide much of the ...