Aghori sadhus, known for their unconventional practices and unique spiritual path, have always intrigued both believers and skeptics. These ascetics, who believe in worshipping Lord Shiva, often ...

You might have seen this plot in movies all these years but this is a true story that has unfolded. Gangasagar Yadav, a resident of Jharkhand, went missing in 1998 after leaving for Patna. His family ...

An office-bearer of the Samiti, Pawan Chaudhary said hundreds of saints and devotees participated in this year’s procession Smeared in ash from head to toe, several Naga and Aghori sadhus and their ...

Italian photographer Cristiano Ostinelli visited the exiled tribe of Aghori monks from Varanasi, India. As part of their rituals, they eat human flesh, drink from human skulls, chew the heads off live ...

Masaan ki Holi is a spiritual festival celebrated in Varanasi's cremation grounds, involving ash instead of colors to symbolize life’s impermanence and mortality. It is observed by ascetics and Shiva ...

Sadhu is the Sanskrit word for “straight,” and the straight-living, ascetic sadhus of India were once the bearers of Hindu holiness. Robed in saffron or stark naked, smeared with ashes or painted ...

When the camera spans from a Hindu holy man called Lali Baba draped in a saffron-colored loincloth with untidy, knotted dreadlocks to a skull next to him, he says: "There are three important things to ...

Bala's next 'Naan Kadavul' has spellbound the spectators who watched the promo videos. The trailer had a robust Sadhu like Arya, who's menacing and disparate with his vicious pantomime. Seemingly ...