{"id":71220,"date":"2025-01-29T09:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=71220"},"modified":"2025-01-29T09:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:15:57","slug":"in-pictures-what-is-the-maha-kumbh-mela-and-why-does-it-attract-millions-of-hindus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/29\/in-pictures-what-is-the-maha-kumbh-mela-and-why-does-it-attract-millions-of-hindus\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: What is the Maha Kumbh Mela and why does it attract millions of Hindus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1y2Sa5.img?w=768&amp;h=512&amp;m=6\" alt=\" (AFP via Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A \u201cstampede-like situation\u201d at one of the biggest religious festivals in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">India<\/a>, the Maha Kumbh Mela,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/asia\/india\/stampede-kumbh-mela-2025-prayagraj-deaths-b2688090.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">led to multiple casualties\u00a0<\/a>on Wednesday, police said.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/in-pictures-what-is-the-maha-kumbh-mela-and-why-does-it-attract-millions-of-hindus\/ar-AA1y2zm9?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=1cbad6cbdb0a48ffa3f41e8a1c0e3f44&amp;ei=30\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A \u201cstampede-like situation\u201d at one of the biggest religious festivals in\u00a0India, the Maha Kumbh Mela,\u00a0led to multiple casualties\u00a0on Wednesday, police said.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Stampede-India.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71222,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71220\/revisions\/71222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}