Maha Kumbha Mela

by Gail Gutradt From the Archives Ashé Journal 2.1, 2003. 24 January, 2001, Allahabad, India After a week of wandering through dusty Mela grounds, sitting with gnarly, ganja-smoking Naga Babas practicing various degrees of intense tapasya, sleeping on stone floors, eating endless ghee-glistening chapatis with dal and subjie, sneezing and gritty coughing from storms of dust […]