Hindus in India have had a helping hand – several in fact – when it comes to fighting deadly contagions like COVID-19: multi-armed goddesses co-opted to help contain and kill pestilence. Collectively ...

(RNS) — Hindus in India have had a helping hand — several in fact — when it comes to fighting deadly contagions like COVID-19: multi-armed goddesses co-opted to help contain and kill pestilence.

“Angry Indian Goddesses” may indeed be India’s first female buddy pic, as the promo material proclaims, chockablock with grrl power and energized by a game cast riding roughshod over Bollywood damsels ...

“Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Painting” is a small show, nothing like the “Wonders of the Age: Master Painters of India 1100-1900,” which the Metropolitan Museum plans for this September.

Between the second and sixth centuries, a series of pandemics destabilized the Roman empire. The first of these was the Antonine Plague, between 165-180 AD, and the second was the Plague of Justinian, ...

Pan Nalin’s ensemble dramedy follows a group of Indian women who confront frequent discrimination and harassment with courage and humor. By Justin Lowe Angry Indian Goddess Still - Publicity - H 2016 ...