(RNS) Fifty years after they began arriving from India, the first generation of Indian-Americans is retiring and finding itself in a quandary. Alth...

If someone claims to be a spiritual person, and that is indeed the most important thing in their life, because it has changed their life for the better, and they know it could do the same thing for others, why would they be such misers that they don't share that with others?

Temple attendance is an awful criterion to apply to Hindus, since their tradition does not emphasize congregational activity and many Hindus prefer to do their spiritual practices on home altars and meditation cushions.

Click through the slideshow to see most and least Hindu cities in America: A study measuring religious bodies in the United States called the, ...

Stamps commemorating major religious holidays exist for Christmas, Hanukkah and Eid. However, one for Diwali, which is happening now, has yet to come to fruition.

(RNS) Hindu Americans have run America's major companies and universities, won Nobel prizes and Olympic gold medals, directed blockbuster movies, and ...

If one claims to be a Hindu and upholds the centrality of the Brahma Sūtras and the Upaniṣads, both deemed Hindu texts, then it is essential for one to study and to become virtuoso.

A self-proclaiming Hindu ought to be able to explain who is a "Hindu" and what is "Hinduism." If such a student took a class with me then s/he would learn that the answers to these questions are thorny.

Note from the editor: "Every day, my Hindu-ness makes me a better American because... " This opening sentence presented the essay challenge that the H...

The Dharmic and Hindu American communities need to take the responsibility and share in developing creative seva ideas that will strengthen the country.

PASSAIC, N.J. -- In a cluttered fifth grade classroom in this New York suburb, Niki Shah has spent the summer attempting an almost impossible task: te...

Like most Indian youth in the U.S., I faced inner conflict between my Indian and American identities. I wanted an identity to which everyone in my immediate surroundings could respect.