How do you photograph the largest gathering of people on Earth? Getty photographer Daniel Berehulak writes for LightBox about ...

Other sadhu sects, like the Standing and Silent Babas, also join the religious procession. But the undisputed crowd favorites are the Naga Babas, the naked holy men. Living in remote caves and ...

The atmosphere is as much spectacle as spiritual, with flashing neon lights, lavish parade floats, and deafening loudspeakers broadcasting religious messages around the clock. Every 12 years, millions ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (Reuters) - Ash-smeared and dreadlocked Naga sadhus or Hindu ascetics, naked except for rosary beads and garlands and smoking wooden pipes, are a huge draw at the world's largest ...

The Kumbh Mela, a show of religious piety and ritual bathing, is a logistical challenge of staggering proportions - Copyright AFP Idrees MOHAMMED The Kumbh Mela, a ...

Digambar Naga Baba has kept his right hand raised for the last five years — a symbolic act of devotion and sacrifice. He claims this extreme penance is to protect Sanatan Dharma, or "eternal dharma", ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (Reuters) - Ash-smeared and dreadlocked Naga sadhus or Hindu ascetics, naked except for rosary beads and garlands and smoking wooden pipes, are a huge draw at the world's largest ...

Naga Sadhus, or Hindu holy men, wait during a procession before taking a dip in a holy pond during the second "Shahi Snan" (grand bath) at Kumbh Mela in Trimbakeshwar, India, on Sept. 13, 2015. Naga ...

Every twelve years, tens of millions of men, women and children gather on the flood plain of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in Allahabad, India, for the Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of humanity for ...

ALLAHABAD, India — It’s dusk, and the sun’s rays succumb to the twinkle of amber streetlights at the sacred confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers. The day’s last bathers, intent on washing away ...