How will the Maha Kumbh 2025—which officially draws to a close on 26 February—be remembered? As the most successful and well attended? Or as the most harrowing and heartless? That will depend on who ...

Even for the world’s most-populous nation, the scale of a Hindu religious festival being held in India’s northern city of Prayagraj since mid-January is staggering. Surpassing previous numbers, the ...

Udupi: Non-availability of seats in trains and flights made a 23-year-old man take his father all the way to Prayagraj on a two-wheeler to fulfil the .

If the Maha Kumbh is succeeding in evoking a sense of oneness, it may not be a bad thing. It gives Hinduism—and its inherent ...

Coming back to the NGT’s observations and its claim that the degree of pollution was found to be maximum at the Sangam and ...

By Arun Srivastava Saffron ecosystem, especially the BJP leadership always strives to turn a Hindu festival into a political controversy. Every dispute adds to its membership and helps widen its ...

The politics of selling the Kumbh has overtaken the science of crowd management, causing tragedies.