'Kumbh is the greatest show on Earth'

January 14, 2019 12:52

"Kya Facebook mein dalogi?" asked the Naga sadhu.
I said, 'If I have your permission, I will. Your wish.' He said, 'Theek hai'.
So I did put it on Facebook and wrote that I had baba's permission.
To meet the other Naga sadhus I had to walk 20 km in the 45 degrees May heat. I wanted to take photographs, they first shooed me off, then every day I spent a couple of hours there."

Radhika Shastry attended the last two Kumbh Melas and published a book of photographs, Kumbh -- The Greatest Show On Earth.

She spoke to Rediff.com's Archana Masih about her encounters with Naga sadhus, a morning with the brilliant chief of the transgenders and the sadhu standing on one leg for 6 years with another 6 to go. Read more

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