The ancient world was shaped not only by empires and monuments but by the strange and symbolic rituals that people believed kept their worlds in balance. Across continents, civilisations practised ...

Witness the sea of color that floods western Pakistan every spring to honor the Goddess Sati. Hindu pilgrims climb the steep flanks of a mud volcano to throw coconuts into the crater—a ritual ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan inaugurated on Saturday the new building of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in the Russian capital Moscow. The inaugural ceremony was attended by ...

Sati burning at the confluence at Poonah by Henry Salt. (SOURCED) When famous European painter, James Wales, arrived at the British residency at Pune in 1792, he noticed the peculiar place ...

Sati recently closed a $600K pre-seed round backed by Bitcoin-focused investors, including Draper Associates, BitcoinFi, Arcanum, BoostVC, and Ricardo Salinas. The funding is being used to support ...

Also, they say sati is a Hindu ritual and Janakrani was a tribal. But many here say that some of the Hindu social and religious practices have been adopted by the tribes in the recent years. Roop ...

While it is true that sati gave rise to lurid, often ridiculous propaganda in the colonial period—foreigners, part scandalised, part transfixed by it, gave it many strange origin myths—it was ...

"Sati", or the ancient Hindu practice of a woman immolating herself on her husband's pyre, has long been banned in India, and those found abetting it face the death penalty. Policemen who tried to ...

This Sati would be an empowered woman, not a wilful one nor one who ceases to be of any importance after the death of her husband. Arshia Sattar works with myth, epic and the story traditions of ...

This year’s national Poson festival commenced on the afternoon of June 6 (Friday) with Poson Sati Pirith ceremony. This significant event took place in front of the Sri Maha Bodhi at the Mahamevunawe ...