bbc.com By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi Eight-year-old Devanshi Sanghvi could have grown up to run a multi-million dollar diamond business. But the daughter of a wealthy Indian diamond merchant […]
WORLD RELIGIONS 24th October 2022 ©Shutterstock Sarmad Naveed, Canada Today marks the celebration of Diwali, which is a major festival observed by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs. It is celebrated ‘from the 13th day […]
In addition to Passover, Easter and Ramadan, holy days occurring in April this year include the Sikhs’ and Hindus’ Vaisakhi, the Jains’ Mahavir Jayanti, the Baha’i festival of Ridvan, and […]
Source: BBC Hundreds of young people belonging to India’s Jain community have begun renouncing the material world to become monks who always walk barefoot, eat only what they receive as alms and never bathe or use modern technology. The BBC’s Priyanka Pathak explores why. “I will never be able to […]