People From Kumbha Mela 2015

September 23, 2015July 26, 2018Maharashtra, Travel Photography63 Comments

Kumbha mela is believed to be the largest religious gathering on earth. It happened in Nashik this year. Millions of people came attend this fair. Here you can see a very small cross section of those people.

People have come from far to cleanse their sins

People organised and arranged everything for the pilgrims

And there were all kinds of people in that small space.

But the highlight was the Sadhus /hermits/saints/pilgrims.

And there were a lot of interesting moments to capture.

And then Someone caught me red handed when I was taking pictures

And then there was a sadhu meeting happening somewhere

While someone was trying to become a sadhu — While someone was trying to become a pseduo sadhu

But the most interesting part was to capture the Naga sadhus.

And they all gave me a wonderful experience to cherish.

[PS : I have deliberately used the term Sadhu which means renunciates who seeks nothing but liberation/Nirvana/Moksha. These pictures represents only a very small part of sadhus to come to any conclusions.]

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Trablogger aka Jithin is an Indian travel blogger who is obsessed with leading a travel life. When he is not traveling, photographing, writing or blogging, you can see him thinking about sustaining this travel life or helping someone to travel more.

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lifestyleproblog

Amazing Portraits J!!! I especially loved the shot of the sadhu with the aviators and one where a woman reads a gurmukhi scripture… lovely!!!

trablogger

Thank you so much.
Oh.. are you from Punjab?

lifestyleproblog

am a punjabi who is not from punjab!!

trablogger

Very interesting Punjabi Indeed 😀

lifestyleproblog

Haha… that I am

Aakansha

I’ve never been to the Kumbh, but your gallery took me there virtually. Thank you. 🙂

trablogger

Thanks a lot Aakansha. Glad you enjoyed the virtual photo walk 🙂

Fimnora Westcaw

Totally amazing pics, here! I loved the sense of each. You can feel the experience coming out of the picture.
As always, a splendid journey.

trablogger

Thanks a lot Fim. Glad you enjoyed the virtual journey 🙂

Fimnora Westcaw

You’re welcome. I always do enjoy these journeys 🙂

trablogger

I hope to bring some more of such journeys 🙂

Lifelover

And I envy you. Seriously. For a photographer, it’s a treat. Amazingly cool photos. Sadhu with the camera is outstanding.

trablogger

haha.. envy?!!
Indeed, it was a treat, but soon i got bored of taking repeated shots. But if you keep on observing, you can find lot of opportunities anyway!

badfish

Whoa..you went to Kumba Mela?? Cool. And all these photos are just marvelous. Guy with the camera is funny. I went in Hardiwar a few years back. Ganga was very cold.

trablogger

Thanks a lot.
Haridwar must be great. More people would have been there. Well the MahaKumbha mela was on 2013. That would be a heck of an experience! But i missed it!