Eating glass. Fire walking. Sword swallowing. These acts that shock and delight have roots in the real and mythical practices ...

Here’s the meaning behind the Hindu celebration ... although the Indian government promotes national products and return to plant-based dyes. In 2012, around 200 people were admitted to a ...

This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... likely by the busy adherents of Roman Catholicism or Hinduism. If Catholics celebrated every saint’s day ...

This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The royalty of India—Hindu and Muslim—understood long ago that power was best wielded from the back of an elephant.

This story appears in the July 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... devoted to the Hindu god Vishnu, recalls the medieval Khmer Empire at its height. The temple is cloistered inside ...

This story appears in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. In their illustrious past the Gadulia Lohar forged armor for Hindu kings. Today these blacksmiths pitch camp on the ...