The Mahakumbh has provided Hindu Supremacist forces an opportunity to further marginalise and invisibilise Muslims, and ...
For Sukla Debnath and Rakesh Kumar Roy, the Kumbh Mela’s Mauni Amavasya wasn't a spiritual cleansing, but a brush with death ...
The sadhu akharas at the Kumbh Mela are more than spiritual sanctuaries. These camps, led by ascetic monks, have become ...
A stampede that killed at least 30 pilgrims and a fire that gutted around 15 tents at the Mahakumbh could not dampen the ...
Undeterred by the previous day's stampede, nearly 2 crore devotees bathed at the Maha Kumbh at Sangam on Thursday. The Mela ...
A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. At the Maha Kumbh festival, where millions are flocking to pray and bathe at the confluence of India’s ...
Australians are among the hundreds of millions flocking to North India for one of the largest gatherings on earth. What makes ...
The modern Hindu, whether he takes a dip at the Mahakumbh or not, prefers to go along with Sahir Ludhianvi’s famous ...
The story of the Kumbh Mela, the festival estimated to gather 400 million people over 45 days. As Hindus make the pilgrimage to bathe at the riverbank, tragedy strikes on the holiest day of the event.
The gap between the arrangements for VIPs and ordinary devotees came up repeatedly in conversations on Thursday with the ...
The Uttar Pradesh administration has turned Kumbh from a rural, bottom-of-the-pyramid phenomenon into an elite experience.
The tragic stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, which claimed several lives and injured many others, is another ...