An interesting shift is happening in Vrindavan, the Hindu holy town where pious pilgrims arrive to do the temple circuit and purify their souls. From their shelters on the banks of the Yamuna, widows ...

VRINDAVAN, India — Like thousands of other widows exiled from their homes to a city in northern India, Nirmala Maheshwari said she was abused by her family after her husband died. “They saw me as a ...

I only believe it because it happened to me. I visited the Banke Bihari Temple in Vrindavan almost sixteen years ago as a tourist, not a devotee. I carried only a general kind of faith then, the sort ...