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Short-sighted SP, hails Akhilesh Yadav for calling off Harvard trip

Apr 28, 2013

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) however lashed out at Azam Khan for showing immaturity in his reactions to his frisking at the airport in Boston. #WhatNext #Harvard #Akhilesh Yadav #Azam Khan #Kumbh Mela
UP min Azam Khan detained briefly at US airport, to cut short visit in protest

Apr 26, 2013

According to sources familiar with the incident, Khan was detained for about 10 minutes for "further questioning" at Boston Logan International Airport yesterday after he landed in a scheduled British Airways flight from India. #United States #NewsTracker #Harvard University #Azam Khan #Kumbh Mela #Uttar Pradesh minister #Boston Logan International Airport
Harvard to present Kumbh Mela study at South Asia meet

Apr 25, 2013

The two-day long symposium in the University's South Asia Institute (SAI) will focus on the timely appeal of South Asia to the humanities at the intersection of religion and civil society, ancient arts and cutting edge technologies, organisers said. #NewsTracker #Harvard University #Kumbh Mela

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Maha Kumbh Mela: Not just about religion, it's about poverty too

Feb 13, 2013

The Maha Kumbh mela is the largest congregation of people in the world. No matter what the news reports say or what visuals you might have seen, nothing can prepare you for the sight as you first come across the grounds. #OnOurMind #Allahabad #Maha Kumbh Mela 2013 #Maha Kumbh Mela

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The Hindu
Through the lens, softly

2013-05-21 11:52:00

Every day, for nine months a year, thousands of flamingos flock the Sewri bay of Mumbai. Sadly, it’s the water body’s pollution that attracts the birds — it is surrounded by petrochemical industries, a fertilizer factory and a power plant. The flamingos #Mumbai #India #National Geographic
PINCH Magazine
The Great Gathering

2013-05-10 09:29:00

It has been said that India is like Marmite: you either love it or you hate it, but either way, its hard not to find it fascinating and to become absorbed in all its madness. Whoever first uttered these pearls of wisdom must have been to the Kumbh Mela. #India #Burning Man
Hindu Samthati
Is Gangasagar turning into an Islamic bastion?

2013-05-17 12:03:00

Gangasagar, well-known pilgrimage and fair of Hindus across the globe and also the second largest congregation of mankind following the Holy Kumbh Mela, is being grabbed by Muslim radicals steadily and the abrupt emergence of lots of illegal slums compri #

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