A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. At the Maha Kumbh festival, ...

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and ...

Millions of Hindus are gathering in a northern Indian city for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world’s largest religious ...

Hindu devotees and mystics have gathered in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, which is the ...

A major display of Hinduism, the event has recently become ... Image Devotees at the juncture of the Yamuna and Ganges rivers on Monday.Credit...Adnan Abidi/Reuters We are having trouble ...

According to tradition that reaches back to the foundations of Hinduism, a ritual dip in the Ganges during Kumbh Mela holds the promise of washing away one’s sins. People from all walks of life in ...

(AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Hindus bathe at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the ... once mercenary armies who generally revere Hinduism’s Lord Shiva. Sri Digambar Ishwargiri ...

Hindus venerate rivers, and none more so than the Ganges and the Yamuna ... Indian civilization is inseparable from Hinduism, although critics say the party's philosophy is rooted in Hindu ...

The event - held once every 12 years - starts on Monday and over the next six weeks, the devout will bathe at Sangam - the confluence of India's most sacred Ganges ... goal of Hinduism is salvation.