{"id":4159,"date":"2004-04-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/04\/24\/2004-04-24-foreigners-among-the-kumbha-mela-sadhus\/"},"modified":"2004-04-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-24T12:00:00","slug":"2004-04-24-foreigners-among-the-kumbha-mela-sadhus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/04\/24\/2004-04-24-foreigners-among-the-kumbha-mela-sadhus\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigners Among the Kumbha Mela Sadhus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/morenews\/showmorestory.asp?slug=Foreigners+become+Sadhus&#038;id=51873\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>UJJAIN, INDIA, April 9, 2004: A lot of foreigners who have become naga sadhus are in Ujjain for the Ardh Kumbh, according to this report from ndtv.com. Most of them are members of the Juna Akhada. &#8220;I always wanted to be a sadhu and be in India,&#8221; said Dutt Bharti, who came to India on a cycle from Germany several years ago. He later renounced his German name to become a naga sadhu. Juna Akhada now has over 200 members from countries like Japan, Italy and France. Many of them have learnt Hindi to completely integrate themselves with the sadhu culture.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceUJJAIN, INDIA, April 9, 2004: A lot of foreigners who have become naga sadhus are in Ujjain for the Ardh,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}