A compassionate goddess featuring primarily in the Buddhist pantheon, where she is also regarded as a bodhisattva, Tara has been conceptualised in various forms, both benign and fierce. Also venerated ...

Mumbai’s Kala Ghoda Festival is one of the most iconic cultural celebrations in India. The cultural festival has been rooted in the city’s colonial past and its vibrant artistic present. The nine-day ...

This statue of the Buddhist goddess Tara combines the spiritual and the sensual. The sculpture would have been used as a focus for meditation on the qualities Tara represents ? mercy and compassion.

All religions insist they respect women. However they all have stories, art and laws that are rather patriarchal, if not outrightly misogynistic. When this is pointed out, believers and followers tend ...