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Tens of millions of Hindu devotees make do with little at Maha Kumbh festival
It’s late evening in the city of Prayagraj and the roadside vendors selling snacks are packing up their wares to shut for the night.
Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees take holy dip at largest gathering of humanity on Earth
Maha Kumbh, the largest gathering of people anywhere on Earth, is expected to draw more than 400 million devotees to India’s Uttar Pradesh
Dreadlocked Indian ascetics take holy dip in Hindu Kumbh festival
The 'royal bath' is a key part of the event, held every 12 years in the city of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, significant because Hindus believe it confers salvation from the cycle of birth and death, in addition to absolution of sins.
Naked, ash-smeared Hindu ascetics take holy dips at India’s Maha Kumbh festival
Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims took dips in freezing water at the confluence of sacred rivers in northern India on Tuesday.
Factbox-How Is India Managing Its Maha Kumbh Festival, the World's Largest Gathering?
India's Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is set to be the world's largest gathering of humanity, with 400 million visitors expected at the six-week event that began this week in the northern city of Prayagraj.
India kicks off a massive Hindu festival touted as the world's largest religious gathering
Over about the next six weeks, Hindu pilgrims will gather at the confluence of three sacred rivers where they will take part in elaborate rituals.
India's Maha Kumbh festival sees 15 million people take holy dip on first day
Nearly 15 million Hindus, six times the number expected, took a dip in freezing waters seeking absolution of their sins on Monday, the first day of India's festival that could draw the world's largest single gathering of humanity.
Holy Dips At India's Giant Hindu Festival Come With Challenge
For pilgrims at the largest gathering of humanity, ritual bathing in India's holy rivers includes a key challenge -- finding your family and clothes after the chilly dip.
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She also highlighted the journey of Italian Jesuit priest, Roberto de Nobili, to India as an example of assimilation. “He ...
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Millions of pilgrims and naked, ash-smeared ascetics take holy dips in India's mega Hindu festival
Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims are taking dips in sacred rivers in the first of a series ...
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GK Questions With Answers on Hindu Mythology
Hindu mythology deals with the legends and tales of various Hindu deities that are worshipped in Hinduism. It provides various accounts of their evolution and how the world was formed. This quiz will ...
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Before writer-politician Shashi Tharoor made his presence felt at The Hindu’s annual literary extravaganza Lit for Life on ...
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India's Outcast Toilet Cleaners Keeping Hindu Festival Going
Millions of pilgrims hoping to cleanse their sins by ritual baths at India's Kumbh Mela festival rely on key lavatory workers ...
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Hindu Supremacy: Roja Singh and Prachi Patankar
Ways Hindu supremacism and white supremacist culture mirror one another and how the movement is orienting itself to other far ...
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The Hindu Lit for Life 2025: How reading helped Abraham Verghese become a doctor and a writer
In a powerful message to the young in the audience exhorting them to read, Dr. Verghese said, “There is no way you can ...
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Video shows recovered jewellery from 2021 burglary case, not from 'Muslim employee of Hindu temple'
A video of police displaying jewellery from a robbery in 2021 has been shared repeatedly with a false claim the haul had been ...
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