The World Greatest Festival of India!

The greatest Hindu festival held once every twelve years started at Prayag raj, India on January 14th, 2025, and ends at February 26th 2025.




The Maha Kumbh Mela - the festival of the sacred pitcher - is anchored in Hindu Scriptures. In this great festival Saints, ascetics, pilgrims and ordinary men and women from all walks of life participate and make this as the greatest only festival of the world.


About forty crores people are expected to come over here.


The rivers Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswathi rivers meet at Prayag raj and devotees cleanse their sins by taking a dip at the Triveni Sangamam where the three holy rivers merge at one place.


The river Ganges is a sacred river for Hindus. Devout Hindus bathed in the Ganges all the yearlong to wash away their sins, but the spiritual effect of the ablutions is considered most patent during the festival held at twelve-year interval.


Chinese pilgrims in the third and seventh centuries and Muslim historians refer to it in 1310 and all of them report it as one of the most wondrous things in the world.


All of them recorded their astounding experience of profound faith and devotion of the countless crowds incessantly dipping into the muddy and chilly waters on these special days at a particular place and revealing a glow of purity and joy that must overwhelm even the most unfeeling man on earth.


Mark Twain the great American author has written in his book: "More Tramps Abroad: "This is indeed India... the country of hundred nations and hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods, cradle of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of traditions... the one sole country under the son that is endowed with the imperishable interest.... The only land that all men desire to see and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the show of all the rest of the globe combined."


This festival is a reflection of India's great cultural heritage also.


Let us salute the wonder that is India!


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