Houston area celebrates Hindu god Krishna's birthday with 11 events full of food, music and dancing By Juhi Varma, Staff writer Updated Sep 6, 2023 3:29 p.m.

Krishna Janmashtami is celebrated as the birthday of the Hindu god Krishna. Many Hindus reenact episodes from mythology on Krishna’s life, known as ‘Krishna Lilas,’ and perform folk dances.

Hindu devotees celebrate the Janmashtami festival on Aug. 19, 2022 in India. The Janmashtami festival is hosted to honor the birth of Krishna, the Hindu god lord. See the photos of the festivities.

Now, getting Krishna's hand from Cambodia happened thanks to another mythic Hindu figure, Hanuman, the monkey god. The museum acquired this sculpture in 1982, and visitors loved to pose with it.

A Houston Hindu temple on Monday was filled with colorfully dressed devotees in celebration of Janmashtami, a holiday that marks the god Krishna’s birthday. Before exploring the vibrant stalls ...

The painting is one of 14 such works—known as pichwais —in “Delighting Krishna: Paintings of the Child-God,” on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art through August 24.

Colorful paintings and images of several incarnations of the Hindu god Krishna adorn the spacious prayer hall at 1716 W. Lunt Ave. Men in traditional Hindu dress, or dhoti, […] ...

Devotees of the Hindu god Krishna, including Ananda Viharini Devi Dado (center), gather in Tower Grove Park in St. Louis on Sunday, July 30, 2017, for the Chariot Festival, sponsored by the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Cleveland Museum of Art's seventh-century Cambodian statue of the Hindu god Krishna, a broken masterpiece painstakingly reassembled in 1978, is ready for a yearlong radical ...

The painting is one of 14 such works—known as pichwais —in “Delighting Krishna: Paintings of the Child-God,” on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art through August 24.