Watch: Millions take a holy dip on day two of India's Mahakumbh Mela Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river Ganges at dawn on the first most significant bathing ...

The devotees celebrate the festival in temples by pouring ... At some temples, Hindu holy men, also known as Sadhus, smoke marijuana — a practice that is normally illegal but is permitted ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India — Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India flocked to the northern city of Prayagraj on Monday to kickstart the Maha Kumbh festival ...

Men with tonsured heads sit in rows for initiation into an order of naked Hindu ascetic holy men known as the Naga Sadhus, during the 45-day-long Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, India, Saturday ...

Dreadlocked Indian Ascetics Among 35 Million Who Take Holy Dip in Maha Kumbh Festival By Saurabh Sharma PRAYAGRAJ, India (Reuters) -Naked Hindu ascetics smeared in holy ash charged into the waters ...

Holi is one of India's biggest festivals, and millions of people make nostalgic journeys to their hometowns to celebrate with loved ... It is my wish that this holy festival full of joy and ...

Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims took dips in freezing water at the confluence of sacred rivers in northern India on ... smeared Hindu holy men marched and ...

Groups of men, scarves wrapped ... Aman Chotani/Getty Images) Urban India everywhere is an immersion in intensity – shock therapy of a kind – but the holy city inhabits a category all its ...

Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river Ganges at dawn on the first most significant bathing day of the Kumbh Mela festival (also known as Mahakumbh) in the ...