Namo Shivayyei cha namo shivaya. The one who (in the form of Gauri) has covered one half of her body till the navel in sandalwood paste and the other half (in the form of Har) with ashes from the ...

Natya Tarangini, a driving force in classical dance and music recently held their Parampara Series 2017 at Kamani auditorium. They welcomed the audience who braved the rains with a bouquet of assorted ...

Hindu god Shiva's cosmic cycle of destruction mirrors Joseph Schumpeter's idea of creative destruction - a theme echoed in ...

Bharatanatyam is a classical Indian dance form that originated in the temples of Tamil Nadu, a southern province of India. This dance form denotes various 19th- 20th-century reconstructions of Sadir, ...

He is as a wanderer — unfettered, uninhibited, solitary. Yet when He loves, He does so to the extent of effacing Himself. His love for Sati was so intense that Her death sent Him into a trance that ...

From the entry of Shiva with his consort Sati (also called Dakshayani for she is the daughter of Daksha), both seated on a crescent-shaped throne to Dakshayani taking rebirth as Parvathi to wed Shiva ...

1. Shiva is 'shakti' or power, Shiva is the destroyer, the most powerful god of the Hindu pantheon and one of the godheads in the Hindu Trinity. Known by many names - Mahadeva, Mahayogi, Pashupati, ...

Thiruvalangadu, home to the Vataranyeshwarar temple, was once a huge forest of banyan trees as indicated by the Tamil name Thiruvalangadu (sacred banyan jungle) and by the Sanskrit name of the ...

The OMG 2 song Har Har Mahadev shows Akshay Kumar in the look of Lord Shiva with ash, dumroo and dreadlocks. A new song from Akshay Kumar's upcoming film OMG 2 seems to be the apt offering in the ...