Sanjay Banoudha, a photojournalist, has been covering India's Kumbh Mela since the 1990s. This year the festival, which began on 13 January, ended on Wednesday. A lot has changed through Mr ...

NEW DELHI -- India's Maha Kumbh Mela, the world's largest religious gathering, comes to an end on Wednesday after seeing the participation of about 650 million devotees -- far exceeding the 450 ...

A naga sadhu Naked holy men, or naga sadhus ... In another hour I’ll be consumed once again by the chaos of the Kumbh Mela. But for now, I hold on to the memory of Varanasi just after dawn … and dream ...

Over the last 45 days, more than 620 million people – over a third of India’s roughly 1.4 billion population - have attended the Maha Kumbh Mela, or the festival of the Sacred Pitcher ...

A one-time Kumbh Mela pilgrim in India finds true cleansing in Christ. At the age of 11, Kumar journeyed 125 miles south from his home of Gonda to Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, to plunge into ...

After the sadhus and mahants of Trimbakeshwar demanded to promote the Trimbakeshwar-Nashik Kumbh Mela, the sadhu-mahants of Nashik objected to it. On Monday, a meeting of the sadhus and mahants of ...

PRAYGRAJ: India's Kumbh Mela festival wraps up Wednesday (Feb 26), with final ritual river bathing ceremonies ending six weeks of celebration that organisers say have been attended by hundreds of ...

After six long weeks, India's Maha Kumbh Mela has wrapped up, drawing close to 650 million devotees in total. On the last day of the world’s largest religious gathering, additional forces were ...

As the historic Mahakumbh 2025 comes to a close, the next Kumbh Mela is already on the horizon. Over the next five years, all four major Kumbh pilgrimage sites—Haridwar, Ujjain, Nashik ...

NEW DELHI, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- India's mega Hindu festival, Maha Kumbh Mela, attracted a crowd of 663 million to the northern state of Uttar Pradesh has formally concluded, officials said Thursday.