#Kumbh Mela 2019

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Mahakumbh Mela: The Once-In-144 year event, mixing Faith and Science!

aka- Me losing my mind over the science and logistics and geeking out about space for a full 15 paragraphs!

Before I start, I'll give a brief overview of what Kumbh Mela is for all my Non-Indian, Non-hindu friends and Indian-Hindus (like me) that didn't know much about this.

Kumbh Mela (or Kumbha Mela) is a major Hindu pilgrimage taken by devout followers every 12 years to mark one revolution of Brihaspati (Jupiter). There's several types of Kumbhs outside of the 12-yearly cycle that is the Ardh (half), celebrated every 6 years and Maha (major), celebrated every 144 years!

The last one is the one we have this year!!! It's been 144 years since that happened- ie. The last Mahakumbh in Prayagraj was in 1881!

Anyway there's religious and cultural significances that I'm not the best person to explain but you can read it in articles and all- IM HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE SCIENCE AND THE COOLNESS OF THE EVENT!!

Okay so despite being a religious festival there's a significant amount of cool science here-

It takes Jupiter approximately 12 Earth years (4333 days) to travel once around the Sun. That's the event thats marked by each Kumbh mela, which means we can literally calculate the years when this happened all the way back to when this festival started!!!!

Also know why the Mahakumbh is every 144 years? It's cause there's 12 cycles of revolutions that's happened in those years making it extra culturally significant but ya know what that means?

Jupiter's been around the Sun about 12 times since 1881!!!!

Like cmon that's such a cool fact to know! I love that! Fck yeah I didn't need that information but I love that wooo!

The Kumbh Mela is also one of the largest peaceful gathering of people in the world and the world's largest congregation of religious pilgrims!

THERE WERE 50 MILLION PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE IN 2019???!?!?!

50 fcking million! That's the largest public gathering of Hindus ever recorded- and guess what it's only estimated to increase.

Anyway yes this year from Jan 13th to Feb 26th is going to be insane in Allahabad. The amount of organization and logistics of planning and maintaining order with that huge a crowd is going to be insane!

It's approximated about 40 crore (400 million) people will show up to Prayagraj, Allahabad for this once in a lifetime event!

Sorry I'm just so geeking out over how huge this is. Like I'm an Atheist but the sheer devotion in that many people just woah!

Anyways yeah I doubt anyone cares but I thought this was cool and I had to geek out somewhere. I've probably missed a lot of stuff so feel free to add to this!

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Kumbh Mela pilgrims watch chariot processions of saffron-robed Hindu ascetics at the festival in Prayagraj, India, in Feb. 2019. (Photo by Priyadarshini Sen)

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India kicks off largest religious festival

Millions of Hindu worshippers from across India gathered in the northern city of Prayagraj to start the Maha Kumbh festival, AP News reported.

Over the next six weeks, Hindu pilgrims will gather at the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati. There they will take part in elaborate rituals, hoping to achieve a release from the cycle of rebirths.

Believers think that immersion in waters will cleanse them of past sins and complete the process of reincarnation. The most auspicious of these days occur in cycles of 12 years during a festival called the Maha Kumbh Mela, or pitcher festival.

Ablutions take place every day, but the naked, ash-covered monks rush to the sacred rivers at dawn on the most auspicious days. Many pilgrims stay for the entire festival, observing austerities, giving alms and performing ablutions at sunrise each day.

A smaller version of the festival, Ardh (Half) Kumbh, was organised in 2019, with 240 million visitors registered. Of these, around 50 million performed the ritual ablution on the busiest day.

World’s largest gathering

At least 400 million people are expected at Prayagraj over the next 45 days. That’s about 200 times more than the 2 million pilgrims who travelled to the holy Muslim cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage last year.

The festival site is equipped with more than 3,000 kitchens and 150,000 toilets. Divided into 25 sections and stretching over 40 square kilometres (15 square miles), the tent city also has housing, roads, electricity and water, communication towers and 11 hospitals.

Indian Railways has also launched over 90 special trains that will make around 3,300 journeys during the festival to transport the worshippers. Around 50,000 security personnel have also been deployed in the city to maintain law and order and contain the crowds.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s support is also expected to strengthen the festival. The Uttar Pradesh state headed by Yogi Adityanath, a popular Hindu monk and politician in Modi’s party, has allocated over $765 million for this year’s event.

The event will reinforce the past record of the ruling Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party in promoting Hindu cultural symbols.

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Before PM Modi came to power, LGBTQ community had very limited rights. Thanks his liberal mind set, the LGBTQ community in India is no longer criminalised and they have greater rights than ever before. The article above is long and full of details. If you don't have time to read it all, go towards the end and see the number of rights secured and dates. You will see that most of the number of rights won by the LGBTQ community have been under PM Modi. That's not to say its all thanks to gov. The judiciary's decisions in several cases has helped upend laws put in place during the British Raj. What is important is that the gov hasn't stepped into nullify what the judiciary has done for the LGBTQ community. That sort of tacit support or 'support by not-opposing' is valuable too.

In 2015, a new Hindu monastic order was created by the Trans community! Within 3 years of being formed, they were recognised as the 14th Hindu Monastic order and were given the privilege of bathing with the other monks during Kumbh Mela in 2019.

This did not happen in a vacuum. The open minded, inclusive attitude of the BJP is in sharp contrast to its public image in the west. For ideological reasons, the west sees PM Modi and the BJP as conservative, undemocratic, communal party. Facts prove otherwise. Not only has BJP's rule proved to be more liberal than the Congress, Socialist or Communist parties, it has been more democratic and has seen fewer communal riots than in previous 65 years of Indian independence.

BJP have voted in a muslim and a tribal woman as Presidents. Their current leader comes from the 'backward community' and has risen from the most humble background - tea-boy at a train station - to being the chief minster of Gujarat and Prime Minister 3 times. In any other context, this would be celebrated. But, because of his party and pro-India stance, he is unfairly vilified in the western press.

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Interplay of Faith and Economics at Mahakumbh 2025

The event’s estimated budget stands at Rs 6,382 crore, with Rs 5,600 crore already allocated for event management and infrastructure development. In comparison, the government had spent Rs 3,700 crore in 2019 Kumbh Mela. Mahakumbh Mela 2025 is set to be more than just a spiritual event; it promises to be a major economic driver for Uttar Pradesh. Historical records from the 1882 Kumbh Mela show…

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Kumbh Mela is the world's largest cultural and religious festival Allahabad, India. This is the world's largest spiritual and cultural crowd. It is organized every 12 years.

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Like Indira': At Kumbh, Priyanka trumps her brother, but not Modi

Outside one of the akharas in the Kumbh Mela area, a dairy booth owner is woken up by the noise of an approaching customer. The customer walks up to him for some lassi and begins political chatter: “Did you hear? They’ve announced that Priyanka [Gandhi Vadra] will also fight elections.” The booth owner, Sunil Kumar Tripathi, listens, and then says “it’s all nonsense” and that “only idiots will vote for her”.

A little prodding by the customer led Tripathi to elaborate why a voter has to be an “idiot” to vote for Priyanka, the newest general secretary of the All India Congress Committee and in charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh. “See, people who voted for Indira Gandhi will think Priyanka is her reincarnation. Those staunch Hindu believers of punar janam (rebirth) will buy into that narrative,” he says. It is, of course, another matter that Priyanka was almost 13 when her grandmother was assassinated.

Unlike her brother Rahul Gandhi, whose name largely received puzzled looks or scoffs, there was some nuanced engagement with the announcement of Priyanka’s official foray into politics. Eastern UP, largely the bastion of Samajwadi Party that the Bharatiya Janata Party upstaged in the 2015 Assembly elections, has largely felt ignored by the Congress and Gandhi family. “But all this happened too late in the day,” Narendra Kumar, a visitor from Gauriganj at the Kumbh, says. “She looks like Indira.” Read More

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