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Ganges

since 2025 › Jan › 29 (Wed) @ 06:59 UTC

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16 days ago

‘The intimate and the epic’: the best way to understand India is to travel by train ○

found 2026 › Feb › 12 (Thu) @ 07:27 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Being a passenger in this vast country is ‘a full-blooded immersion in the local’, says the novelist whose latest protagonist is lured by the romance of the rails

I carry my train journeys in my bones…

43 days ago

Thousands of Hindu devotees take holy dip at Sangam during Magh Mela festival ⊕⊕

found 2026 › Jan › 16 (Fri) @ 00:35 UTC

a story from Euronews ⚠️ › Euronews

Hindu holy men and devotees take a dip in Sangam, the confluence of Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers to celebrate India’s Magh Mela festival.

3 months ago

‘The flowing red saree on the bank of the Ganges was incredibly striking’: Divyanshu Verma’s best phone picture ⊕⊕

found 2025 › Nov › 22 (Sat) @ 11:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The Indian photographer captured a quiet moment at the popular Maha Kumbh Mela religious festival in Prayagraj

Divyanshu Verma regards the north Indian city of Prayagraj as deeply special: not only is…

Lights on the Ganges and a hippo’s debut swim: photos of the day – Thursday ○

found 2025 › Nov › 06 (Thu) @ 14:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

8 months ago

BBC viewers reduced to tears as University Challenge host Amol Rajan sobs over bereavement 'too painful to think about' in emotional new documentary ○

found 2025 › Jun › 26 (Thu) @ 09:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Amol Rajan Goes To The Ganges (pictured), released on BBC One last night, followed the journalist and broadcaster, 41, on a life-changing trip to his birth country of India.

How releasing his father's soul left British journalist high as a kite: ROLAND WHITE reviews Amol Rajan Goes To The Ganges ○

found 2025 › Jun › 26 (Thu) @ 00:30 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

In part to heal his grief, but mainly because the BBC suggested it, Amol flew to India to attend the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela, a huge gathering of pilgrims on the banks of the Ganges.

Amol Rajan Goes to the Ganges review – ‘I miss his love. Oh god, I loved him so much’ ○

found 2025 › Jun › 25 (Wed) @ 21:30 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

In this deeply moving and cathartic film, the presenter confronts his father’s death by going on a holy pilgrimage … and ends up releasing his soul in the sacred river. Beautiful

Three years ago Amol …

10 months ago

Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane review – streams of consciousness ○

found 2025 › Apr › 28 (Mon) @ 06:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

An impassioned plea to save our rivers combines poetry and adventure

Tracking a river through a cedar forest in Ecuador, Robert Macfarlane comes to a 30ft-high waterfall and, below it, a wide pool. It…

11 months ago

The pop-up megacity: how the Kumbh Mela prepared for 660m Hindu devotees ○

found 2025 › Mar › 17 (Mon) @ 12:33 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Hundreds of millions of pilgrims flocked to the Ganges for this year’s festival, housed in a sprawling temporary metropolis stretching across 4,000 hectares of the floodplains of Prayagraj in Uttar P…

12 months ago

‘There has been an awakening’: ancient sects on the rise in Modi’s India ○

found 2025 › Feb › 16 (Sun) @ 10:30 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Some 400 million devotees will attend this year’s Kumbh Mela festival. Pilgrims and politicians explain why it’s bigger than ever

They sat quietly together on the banks of the Ganges river, heads bowe…

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