Several people were feared dead after a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, in northern India's Uttar Pradesh State on Wednesday, on one of the holiest days of the event as ...
A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. But at the festival, where ...
The Hindu festival that turned deadly in northern India on Wednesday is a religious gathering with deep spiritual meaning for ...
Many consider it a selfless service to their religion — without which ... pray and bathe at the confluence of India’s holy rivers, it morphs into a major display of Hinduism in various forms ...