PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Thousands of devotees jostle behind bamboo fences to get a glimpse of the grand procession of the naked, ash-smeared and armed Hindu holy men. The Naga Sadhus are the highlight ...

PRAYAGRAJ: At the Maha Kumbh, a unique recruitment has commenced — of candidates for initiation as Naga sadhus. Thousands of young sanyasis ready to become Nagas in different akharas, with the ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India – At the world's largest pilgrimage in Prayagraj in northern India, tens of millions of Hindu faithful travel to the sacred sangam — the confluence of three holy rivers — to take a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mysterious naked holy men a huge draw at India's Kumbh Mela By Sunil Kataria and Alasdair Pal PRAYAGRAJ, India (Reuters) - ...

New Delhi: Letters from the Hindi alphabet in bold black Devanagiri script jumped out of a Naga sadhu’s ash-smeared back. The ...

Why do Naga Sadhus perform Pind Daan while still alive? Is it merely a ritual of detachment or does it signify a deeper spiritual “soul contract”? In this intriguing episode of Times Mantra, ...

Nepal's Supreme Court has ruled that naked Hindu holy men need not wear clothes to attend a revered temple, declaring that their age-old tradition of nudity is not obscenity. The ash-smeared and ...

MALAPPURAM: Naga sadhus from Varanasi, Kashi and the Himalayas have begun arriving in Thirunavaya for the concluding day of the Mahamagha Mahotsavam. More than 500 sadhus are expected to take part in ...