We all have seen priests, Brahmins, or boys wearing a white thread during the Upanayana ceremony in Hinduism, which is called ...

Ahmedabad: Fifteen years ago, Ahmedabad-based businessman Darshan Patel was keen to enter the booming “look good, smell good” industry. But it didn’t pass his own smell test. The deodorant market was ...

When Ananth Udupa was 7 and growing up in Phoenix, he underwent a Hindu rite of passage for boys of higher castes called an Upanayana. The ceremony, which goes back millennia, in some ways ...