A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. At the Maha Kumbh festival, ...
The Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela surpassed the symbolic figure of 300 million holy baths since its beginning on Jan. 13 in northern India, according to data from the organizers, as the investigation ...
Between 90 to 100 million pilgrims had congregated to take ritual baths in sacred rivers at a festival in northern India.
For many Hindu pilgrims, bathing at the festival where three holy rivers meet is the spiritual journey of a lifetime. But as ...
In the depths of one of the world’s most polluted rivers, a community of divers searches for coins thrown by Hindu ...