Our Tour of a Lifetime
By Kailash Dakshinamurthi Pilgrimage. I’ve always begun one with spiritual preparation and an understanding of what I expect to experience. […]
Kumbha mela
How the Mela Measured Up
How shall we summarize the mela? like the bottom line of an accounting sheet, numbers get right to the point.
Kumbha Mela 2001
Seventy million Hindus from around the world–the largest human gathering in history–worshiped at the confluence of the rivers Ganga and
One Pilgrim’s Story
Is it possible to film the Kumbha Mela in all its complex, wild and unruly grandeur? Vancouver director Alan Morinis
Meet Our Mela Corps
(Please see hard copy for all photographs) The creation of this special issue required a rare and eclectic collaboration of
Coping With Crowds
By PRABHA PRABHAKAR BHARDWAJ Senior Indian administration service official J.P. Sharma smiled contentedly as he detailed to Hinduism Today the
Kumbha Mela
With Jono Lineen The tens of millions of Hindus who came to the Kumbha Mela at Haridwar this year were
Deadly Melee of Sadhus Mars Mela
The official report is that a hundred holy men were injured but none killed in the clash between two monastic
Holy Ones
There was no proper map of the sadhu camps available to us, so in the 42¡ celsius (108¡ F) heat,
Holy Procession
By Nikki Lastreto First in procession on Maha Sivaratri, March 25, came the Naga sadhus of the Juna Akhara, reputed