The Promise of the Kumbh Mela According to a tradition that reaches back to the foundations of Hinduism, a ritual dip in the ...

Official figures suggest that over 400 million people have visited the Maha Kumbh Mela taking place in India. The Hindu event is the world’s largest religious festival.

The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. The photo of a Naga Sadhu — a Hindu ascetic — at the confluence ...

The Gateway to the Divine Haridwar, located in the Himalayan foothills, is a popular pilgrimage destination in India. It is ...

Among the Maha Kumbh Mela’s main attractions are the Sadhus – holy men revered for their spiritual virtue and renunciation of worldly pleasure. Adil Bhat India correspondent with a special ...

India’s Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a ritual river dip today at the world’s largest religious ...

Jaya Bachchan made a strong remark on Maha Kumbh Mela Water being the most contaminated in the current scenario. Here's why she said the same.

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Nishad boatmen say they are the proud inheritors of an ancient profession, transporting pilgrims and narrating the ...

The History Lecture Series hosted their second installment of “River Histories” on Jan. 29 with a lecture presented by ...

India's Kumbh Mela festival attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful to Prayagraj in northern Uttar Pradesh state, but ...

A Catholic-run hospital and a college in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have offered free meals to Hindu devotees ...