17th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest People
A monk with his loyal friend

Kumbh Mela, in Hinduism, a great religious festival that is celebrated four times over the course of 12 years in four different places of India with crores of pilgrimage footfalls and thousands of Hindu ascetics. The photographs is the momentum frame of a hindu ascetic roaming the fair ground with his loyal blind friend on his shoulder. The fair is mainly known for the importance of spirituality in Hindu religion. The loyal bonding of the great Hindu ascetic monk and the free bird somehow portrays the deepest connection of the spirituality and human life; which is the sole reflection of Kumbh Mela.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 02.2019
Date Uploaded: 11.2019
Photo Location: Allahabad, India
Camera: NIKON D7000
Copyright: © Monidipta Monidipta