Mystics' river: Pilgrims take the plunge in the Ganges For Hindus, ... Next to him was a picture of a follower, complete with a motorised arm that gently fanned his master.

Horrifying images have emerged of hundreds of saffron cloth-shrouded bodies of COVID-19 victims floating along India’s Ganges River after the start of the seasonal monsoon flooding dislodged the ...

History professor's book traces river from childhood to adulthood, and beyond Sudipta Sen visited Himalayan pilgrim towns along the Ganges River with his family as a 4-year-old, and ingested small ...

Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims descended on the banks of the Ganges river on Thursday, trusting in faith rather than masks to shield them against the coronavirus pandemic during the giant ...

Makar Sankranti celebrates the sun's journey into the northern hemisphere, a period which is considered to be highly auspicious and is one of the most important festivals of the Hindu calendar.

There’s a dreamlike quality to Giulio Di Sturco’s photograph of Hindus preparing to bathe in the Ganges. Taken in soft morning light, the image shows devotees assembled by the river, their ...

VARANASI, India – As the mighty Ganges River overflowed its banks this past week following heavy monsoon rains, large parts of the Hindu holy town of Varanasi were submerged by floodwaters ...

And the Ganges, or the Ganga Mata (Mother Ganges) as it's called by India's devout, is in bad shape. Untreated sewage flows directly into the river where people cook, bathe, and perform burial ...

The photographer’s book “Ganga Ma,” or Mother Ganges, brings together almost 70 pictures from his journeys along the 1,500-mile-long river, which stretches across India and Bangladesh, from ...

VARANASI, India (AP) — As the mighty Ganges River overflowed its banks this past week following heavy monsoon rains, large parts of the Hindu holy town of Varanasi were submerged by floodwate… ...