The Ganga Sagar Mela is a Hindu pilgrimage incredibly popular with Naga Sadhus which is held yearly at the confluence of the river Ganges and the Bay of Bengal.
Varanasi is quintessential India. It is a shock to the senses, amazingly colorful, fragrantly overwhelming, and insistently hectic. It sits along the western bank of
Sadhus, or Babas as they are often affectionately called, are Hindu ascetic holy men. They have given up worldly pleasures (including family attachment, material possessions,
Last February, I had the opportunity to experience and photograph the Kumbh Mela, the largest human gathering in the world held, not surprisingly, in India.