World’s Largest Gathering Puts Modi’s Hindu Agenda in Spotlight
A Hindu devotee performs fire-breathing act during a religious procession ahead of the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj on Jan. 10.
Photographer: Niharika Kulkarni/AFP/Getty Images
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Billed as the world’s largest human gathering, India is hosting a once-in-a-decade religious event from Monday that gives Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party a fresh opportunity to promote its Hindu nationalist agenda among hundreds of millions of pilgrims.