The Maha Kumbh Mela -- touted as the world's largest human gathering -- is underway in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj. The sacred ...

For Velayudhan, a resident of Irvine, CA, the pull to attend the Maha Kumbh felt powerful and inexplicable. “If it wasn’t ...

PRAYAGRAJ, (India): A six-week Maha Kumbh Mela or Great Pitcher Festival begins in India on Monday (Jan 13), a Hindu sacred event that will be the world's largest gathering of humanity as it ...

The largest mela in the country for centuries, the Kumbh Mela, was a bigger phenomenon ... A mela is a unique Indian cultural phenomenon whose specialness is yet to be appreciated in modern ...

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Nashik: The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC), anticipating a significant increase in the number of sadhus for the 2026-2028 ...

2025 10:59 PM IST Abhay Singh aka 'IIT Baba', who shot to fame at the Maha Kumbh mela in UP's Prayagraj, revealed how he left a high-paying job in Canada, returned to India, and went on a ...

The suspension of social stratification The Maha Kumbh Mela functions as a dynamic arena where India’s social fabric is both displayed and redefined. In the temporary cities that spring up along ...

This year, the Kumbh Mela began on January 13 and will end on February 26. It is expected to bring together more than 450 million people across 45 days in Prayagraj in northern India. Here are ...

There are so many people in our India. I now believe that our country has a population of 140 crore, 150 crore." Crores of people have been attending the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj. Several ...

Historians like Kama Maclean have researched the origins of the modern organisation of the Kumbh Mela in what was earlier ... The subsequent trajectory of events in India is familiar: the rise ...