Confluence of culture & tech

The Maha Kumbh 2025 at Prayagraj presents the peak display of India's spiritual heritage, facilitated through cutting-edge technology and courted by high-end security measures

- JAYA VARMA SINHA

Gently flows the mighty Ganga, embracing the ancient and the new, invigorating life as we know it, and nurturing civilizations revering its every drop. Celebrated since perpetuity all along its journey, every 12 years the mighty river receives millions that flock to it seeking its blessings. For vast multitudes, the Kumbh Mela, observed at the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and the invisible Saraswati at Prayag, has remained a symbolic link with ancestors who generations ago came to the very spot in reverence, and went back with memories that lasted a lifetime. The Maha Kumbh of 2025, currently underway at Prayag, is anticipated to see a footfall of nearly 300 million pilgrims during the 45 days of the mela, making it the largest religious gathering on the planet. It has taken a mammoth effort, by all the stakeholders, to ensure that this vast multitude of humanity reaches the holy sangam and partakes its blessings with ease.