Day Inside ‘Akhadas’ At Maha Kumbh
Mahakumbh Nagar: Their barely-clad bodies smeared in ash and long hair in deadlocks, seers at the Maha Kumbh begin each day at 4 am with a dip at the holy Sangam and a litany of rituals before proceeding to receive the pilgrims visiting them. Life in the ‘akhadas’ for these seers involves a bevy of…