Naga Sadhvis challenge traditional gender roles by having equal status in their spiritual groups. They take part in debates and religious activities, showing that women can lead spiritually too. At ...

Chitradurga: A Naga Sadhu from Karnataka, hailing from Chitradurga died in the stampede at Prayagraj’s Mahakumbh Mela, which occurred during the Mauni Amavasya celebrations. The deceased Naga ...

Thousands of pilgrims were crushed under a moonless winter sky in the wee hours of Wednesday at Prayagraj. The official toll ...

Chennai: Four persons have been arrested out of the seven accused, who chased in their SUV, some women travelling in a car on ...

Artist Viveek Sharma's exhibition, Silence Please, showcases large portraits of Kumbh sadhus in Pointillist technique at ...

The Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela surpassed the symbolic figure of 300 million holy baths since its beginning on Jan. 13 in northern India, according to data from the organizers, as the investigation ...

You don't realise your life has changed in just three days.' 'It's when you come back to the city that it starts hitting you ...

Maha Kumbh Mela is at its peak in Prayagraj. Despite the stampede that killed many people a few days ago, the excitement and ...

For Sukla Debnath and Rakesh Kumar Roy, the Kumbh Mela’s Mauni Amavasya wasn't a spiritual cleansing, but a brush with death ...

The sadhu akharas at the Kumbh Mela are more than spiritual sanctuaries. These camps, led by ascetic monks, have become ...

If the resurgence of Hindu consolidation results in ritualistic congregations of huge magnitude without discipline, accidents ...

Devotees from across the world are flocking to Prayagraj to participate in the Maha Kumbh celebrations and lauded the management for effectively organising the grand-scale event. Yulia from Moscow ...