Thousands of devotees jostle behind bamboo fences to get a glimpse of the grand procession of the naked, ash-smeared and ...

Indian media have reported deadly bus crashes involving Kumbh Mela pilgrims, but footage shared on social media of an ...

The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of ...

The unfathomable scale of the world's largest religious festival in India overshadows many nations in size -- and for the ...

Manipur has not been dealt a just hand, but that should never be an excuse for them or Christians anywhere to repay evil for ...

The fall of autocrat Sheikh Hasina triggered a wave of violence against Hindus in Bangladesh. However, many of them deny that ...

Hindu ascetics, head into the holy rivers at dawn. Ava Poonawala, a resident of Mumbai, India, made the journey not as a pilgrim, but to "witness the world’s largest religious event in our ...

A video spread online shows an annual stone-pelting ritual in northern India, contrary to claims by social media posts that ...

Since January 13, millions of pilgrims have gathered at a Hindu festival called Kumbh Mela ... But as millions of pilgrims make their way to the host city Prayagraj in northern India, managing this ...

Religion, politics and the economy are deeply intertwined in India -- and the six-week-long Hindu festival of the Kumbh Mela gives one of the clearest examples. The Hindu nationalist government of ...