A smile dimples her cheeks when I ask her what she’ll do if, later today, she’s chosen to be a kumari, or living goddess, a role that will bring people to their knees before her.

In particular, the twelve greatest gods and goddesses in the Roman state religion – called the di consentes – paralleled the gods of Greek mythology. Although they kept Latin names and images ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The plane that left Heathrow fully loaded is almost empty when it touches down at Maurice Bishop ...

Goddess worship is one of the longest standing religious traditions in Hinduism. Arthur Basham, a well-known historian of India wrote: The theme of shakti perhaps grew out of a conflict and eventual ...

In India where light skin is coveted, a new campaign is re-imagining popular Hindu gods and goddesses with a darker skin, writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi. The desire for fairer skin is not ...

The recent episode of Amitabh Bachchan's Kaun Banega Crorepati 16 had a contestant named Jaya, who hailed from Gujarat. She ...

LONDON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Grenada has become the first country in the world to use a so-called hurricane clause in a government bond - a special feature that allows authorities to postpone debt ...

Simply sign up to the Sovereign bonds myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The first-ever triggering of a government bond “hurricane clause” by the Caribbean nation of Grenada has ...

But why did they go to all that effort? Well, that comes down to their religion which celebrated lots of different gods and goddesses each with their own role to play. Ancient Egyptians believed ...

But why did they go to all that effort? Well, that comes down to their religion which celebrated lots of different gods and goddesses each with their own role to play. Ancient Egyptians believed ...

Currently, there are no airlines that fly direct to Grenada. But we found flights with one or more stops from £403. When is the cheapest time to fly to Grenada? We crunched some numbers and found that ...