The six-week-long Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher festival, began in India last Monday, and is touted as the world's largest gathering of humanity. More than 400 million people are expected to ...
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.