Pilgrims in peril

It was October 19 when city-based professional photographer Anand Sharan's picture he took at the Maha Kumbh Mela earlier this year was nominated for the Black and White Spider Photography awards across the globe in Los Angeles. The photographer was ...

Pulled in by its cultural importance, thousands of beggars flock to the city of the Maha Kumbh, Allahabad, each year. The city also serves as a great getaway for the poor of Purvanchal and neighbouring Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, in hope that ...

New Delhi, Team MP Two photographers give the national capital a chance to celebrate the holy festivities of the maha mela. Photographers Pavan Mahatta and Inder Gopal are all set to take photography lovers on a trip to the Kumbh Mela. The ...

Kumbh is a magical world of liberated and immeasurable traditions, beliefs, rituals, and faith matted with a myriad of hidden meanings. Shri Manoj Thakkar and Mr. Jayesh Rajpal, have brought one such celestial experience in their new book The Mystic ...

LUCKNOW: If Mayawati's dream of dividing UP turned true, what would tourism industry in leftover Avadh Pradesh bank on? Answer to this hypothetical question would be Lucknow, as tourist magnets Agra and Varanasi will go to other states. But UP ...

VADODARA: Having got impressive response from youngsters for last year's Khel Mahakumbh, the state government has decided to introduce Under-12 category this year. The sports festival will have a new category that will cater to school children who ...

Bhopal/Gwalior: Ahead of the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is expected to address ten poll meetings to liven up the state poll campaign. Modi is reaching Gwalior on November 21. It is going ...

_ Facing communal polarisation after the recent Muzaffarnagar riots and a quite high anti-incumbency wave against the now 21-month-long Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party seems to be losing grip over things which is ...

The government will take lessons in crowd management while Chhath devotees perform rituals on the banks of the Ganga. The stampede at Adalat Ghat last year and the serial blasts at Gandhi Maidan during the BJPs Hunkar Rally last month have prompted ...