The Maha Kumbh Mela, or Hindu pitcher festival, begins Monday in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj. Officials expect at least 400 million people to visit Prayagraj over the next 45 days.
The Kumbh originates in a Hindu belief that four drops of the nectar of immortality fell to earth, one in Prayagraj, during a ...
Hindu ascetics, from crowd of 35 million devotees attending, take dip in freezing waters, seeking absolution from sins.
Millions of Hindu devotees are bathing in sacred waters as the world’s biggest religious gathering begins in India’s northern ...
CONTAINS NUDITY Naked men joined a religious mass bathing festival in India. Footage shows the ash-covered worshippers draped in marigold garlands marching on the streets toward the Triveni Sangam ...