Diwali starts today, here's an explainer

Katy Gosset meets a Christchurch woman who's teaching a new generation of New Zealanders how to pickle and preserve. 

Breaking up is hard to do in relationships but also breaking up with your job. Dr Tessa West is a social psychology professor at New York University who says our relationships with our careers and jobs can be a lot like relationships with people and sometimes it's best to break u ... Show More

DOC has updated its list of environmental weeds. 

The festival of Kumbh Mela is estimated to attract 400 million Hindus and other visitors from around the world. The 45-day festival is a massive economic engine, injecting billions in the economy of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, which is hosting the event. And this year, i ... Show More

So Diwali and Halloween are over - and that means all eyes are now looking forward to the festive season, and the upcoming long weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

The month of Ramadan is considered very holy for the Muslim community. While Muslims around the world are uniting to celebrate this festival with great enthusiasm, for many, celebrating Ramadan won't be the same due to the massive earthquake in Syria and Turkey. Generosity and he ... Show More

On January 22nd the new Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh was consecrated in a ceremony led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The event kicked off Modi's election campaign that was widely expected to lead to a landslide for Modi and the BJP. Instead, the Hindu nationalist party l ... Show More

Michael Baltutis' book The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance (SUNY Press, 2023) details the textual and performative history of an important South Asian festival and its role in the development of classical Hinduism. Drawing on vari ... Show More

The festivals of Dhanatrayodashi and Diwali, which mark the onset of winter, are believed to be about wealth, but they are actually significant for one’s health and wellbeing. In this video, Sadhguru explains that during the winter months, the growing distance between the sun and ... Show More

From Eveready torches to luxury tents, and from ash-smeared sadhus to Instagram-worthy holy dips, a spiritual extravaganza like no other, where over 400 million devotees, brands, and marketers converge in Prayagraj. They discover how spirituality is shaping India’s consumer cultu ... Show More