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37 days ago
Britain might be in the doldrums, but people from around the world still flock to these shores - around 45million a year, in fact. The trouble is that most of them end up in the same places.
3 months ago
‘The intimate and the epic’: the best way to understand India is to travel by train ○
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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…
4 months ago
Thousands of Hindu devotees take holy dip at Sangam during Magh Mela festival ⊕⊕
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.
6 months ago
‘The flowing red saree on the bank of the Ganges was incredibly striking’: Divyanshu Verma’s best phone picture ⊕⊕
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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…
7 months ago
Lights on the Ganges and a hippo’s debut swim: photos of the day – Thursday ○
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
Continue reading...11 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 ○
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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 ○
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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’ ○
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 …
13 months ago
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane review – streams of consciousness ○
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…
14 months ago
The pop-up megacity: how the Kumbh Mela prepared for 660m Hindu devotees ○
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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…