{"id":308083,"date":"2019-01-15T05:29:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T05:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308083"},"modified":"2019-01-15T05:29:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T05:29:24","slug":"kumbh-mela-begins-devotees-take-holy-dip-in-sangam-at-prayagraj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kumbh-mela-begins-devotees-take-holy-dip-in-sangam-at-prayagraj\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumbh Mela begins- Devotees take holy dip in Sangam at Prayagraj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308087 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kumbh..-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/kumbh..-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/kumbh...jpg 532w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Kumbh Mela 2019\u2014 the largest religious gathering \u2014 has begun early Tuesday morning at Prayagraj with the holy dip at Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganga and\u00a0Yamuna\u00a0rivers and the mystical Saraswati.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Elaborate security arrangements have been made for the devotees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On the first day of Kumbh Mela, Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0tweeted, \u201cI hope that the pilgrims from India and abroad will see a philosophy of spiritual, cultural and social diversity of India. My wish is that more and more people become part of this divine and grand event.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Soon after midnight, hundreds of devotees who have gathered for the fair from within the country and abroad, began proceeding towards the bathing ghats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAs the Kumbh Mela begins, greetings to fellow citizens and to pilgrims from across the world. The Kumbh is an important part of India\u2019s spiritual and cultural heritage. Appreciate efforts of the Union and Uttar Pradesh govts in this logistically massive exercise,\u201d President Ram Nath Kovind tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kumbh is regarded as the world&#8217;s largest religious festival, which sees the participation of sadhus and devotees across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Kumbh Mela is held every six years, while the Maha Kumbh takes place every 12 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kumbh Mela 2019\u2014 the largest religious gathering \u2014 has begun early Tuesday morning at Prayagraj with the holy dip at Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganga and\u00a0Yamuna\u00a0rivers and the mystical Saraswati. Elaborate security arrangements have been made for the devotees. On the first day of Kumbh Mela, Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0tweeted, \u201cI hope that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2009,2014,2015],"tags":[10293,316,5587,1452,8874,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308088,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308083\/revisions\/308088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}