For centuries, when families across China gathered for Lunar New Year’s Eve, they would while away the hours playing huluwen, an ancient board game that, depending on the theme, would evoke images of ...

Art doesn’t have to align with everyone’s comfort zone — it is meant to provoke thought and promote empathy for experiences beyond our own.” The director also told The Hollywood Reporter ...

The Delhi High Court on 20 January permitted police to seize the paintings after a lawyer named Amita Sachdeva complained the artworks – featuring Hindu deities Ganesha and Hanuman alongside nud ...

M F Husain may be the greatest artist in the world, but he has no right to insult Hindu deities, a lawyer on Wednesday argued before a Delhi court while seeking an FIR against DAG, formerly called ...

A Delhi Court has ordered seizure of two paintings of Indian painter MF Husain on Hindu deities from the Delhi Art Gallery after a complaint was lodged by a lawyer alleging that they were ...

The court ruling came following a complaint from Delhi High Court advocate Amita Sachdeva who termed the paintings of Hindu deities 'offensive ... footage from the art gallery for December ...

displayed in the Delhi Art Gallery. The paintings showed Hindu gods Hanuman and Ganesha holding nude female characters in hands and on the lap. The orders came on the complaint filed by Delhi High ...

Husain, who died in 2011 aged 95, often faced backlash for the depictions of nude Hindu gods in his paintings. The Delhi Art Gallery (DAG), which hosted the exhibition, denied any wrongdoing and ...

It’s just that the term could be applied there very easily,” said historian Manu Pillai during an insightful discussion about his latest book Gods, Guns and Missionaries at the Hindu Lit for Life 2025 ...

Hinduism has through the years gone through several layers of evolution. As European power grew in the Indian subcontinent in the 16th and 17th centuries, the religion underwent yet another process of ...

It vividly maps the Theyyam landscape, defining its characters, rituals, stories, and art forms. Gopalakrishnan ... emphasising the sacredness of each Theyyam performance as an event where gods and ...

Explanation: Shiva, also known as Mahadeva, is one of the gods in the holy trinity of gods in Hinduism. He is considered the destroyer in Hindu mythology. Explanation: Laxmi is considered the ...