but it’s true that some of them are more well-known inside and outside India than others. Perhaps the most intriguing is ...

Tens of thousands of devotees gathered in Mumbai on Tuesday to bid farewell to the Hindu god Ganesha after a ten-day festival celebrating his birth. (AP Video by Rafiq Maqbool and Mahesh Kumar ...

If the story of Lord Ganesha is true, as depicted in the Hindu mythology, He is, perhaps, the first example of xeno-transplantation in the world. He is the elephant-headed God, the embodiment of ...

Mumbai immerses itself in a frenzy of paying homage to the elephant-headed god Ganesha, the Hindu deity of wisdom, knowledge and good fortune. During this event, Lord Ganesh’s idols are ...

A group of devotees hoist a giant idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha as they prepare to dunk it in the Arabian Sea, marking the end of the 10-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India ...

Devotees seek the blessing of the beloved elephant-headed deity and pray ... to promote Indian nationalism and unite people against British colonial rule. By making Ganesh Chaturthi a public ...

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 ...

Ganesh Chaturthi marks the birth of the Hindu god Ganesh ... and that is allegedly how Ganesha was born. Today, the elephant-headed deity is known as the god of prosperity, good fortune, and ...

saying a doll of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh that was on sale was offensive to him. That item, a Ganesh string doll on a keychain, is currently sold out at the gift shop. “Lord Ganesh was ...