Mehndi is considered auspicious during the nine-day festival of Navratri and is believed to bring good luck and prosperity.

Photoshop tutorial showing how to create an ornate mandala using only letters of a name. Mandalas are designs that represent the cosmos or universe from the human perspective. They are often used in ...

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The 19th-century novelist Honoré de Balzac was Catholic, French to the core and obsessed with the material details of French society. Yet there is something profoundly Hindu in the way he sought to ...

Netflix’s gripping crime thriller ‘Mandala Murders’ takes viewers deep into the dark underbelly of Charandaspur, a seemingly quiet town shaken by a string of ritualistic killings. Leading the ...

While the tastemakers of Bollywood have shifted their focus to love and romance in the darkness of theatres, they continue to serve slices of the dark ages in the brightness of living rooms. What ...

Mandala Murders, a gripping Indian crime thriller series on Netflix, follows detective Rea Thomas as she investigates a series of ritualistic murders in the fictional remote town of Charandaspur. Over ...