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 ...

BENGALURU: A city-based couple, parents of twins- a boy and girl, have broken stereotypes by conducting an Upanayana (thread ceremony) for both their children.

One notable section of the book is about the ‘Upanayana’ ceremony, where Dev Varma shares a conversation with his mother, Maharajkumari Kamala Prabha Devi, about shaving his head for the ritual.

For his grandson Master Jyeshtavardhana, Dr Vishnu had even prepared the list of invitees and how the sacred thread ceremony Upanayana has to be conducted.

Head shaving is connected to the removal of impurities. When the child reaches school-going age, the Upanayana (sacred thread) ceremony is performed.

Seattle-based Bengali couple challenge norms with a joint ‘poite’ ceremony for son and daughter Ananda and Sohini Bandyopadhyay organised an upanayan that was loyal to their family traditions, while ...

Harshal, a highborn Hindu in the social hierarchy, is set to transition from childhood to student life in the Upanayana, a ceremony reserved for the three higher groups in India’s caste system ...

Three persons drowned in Nagarjuna Sagar on Thursday when they went in to take a bath following an Upanayana ceremony. The Miryalaguda police, after a four-hour search, traced the bodies late on ...

The Upanayana ceremony also can be translated as the event that gives the boy an additional sight namely the inner vision with the initiation of Gayatri Mantra.

The following year I also had the "Upanayana" ceremony performed for me by Pandit Gautamji, at the Newcastle Hindu temple.