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For centuries, devout Indian have congregated at the Sangam in Allahabad for a holy dip during the Kumbh festival. But Mahakumbh 2001 can be described as a historic event with a rare celestial planetary configuration occurring on this occasion. Millions from India's countryside and urban metropolises, as also 100, 000 foreigners, contributed in their own ways in making the many splendoured Mela an international event. The author, who was the Mela Officer, ...
For centuries, devout Indians have congregated at the Sangam in Allahabad for a holy dip during the Kumbh festival. But Mahakumbh 2001 can be described as a historic event with a rare celestial planetary configuration occurring on this occasion. Millions from India’s countryside and urban metropolises, as also 100,000 foreigners, contributed in their own ways in making the many splendoured Mela an international event. The author, who was the ...
How do you manage the largest human gathering in history? What do you do when the responsibility of calming a riotous mob is entirely yours? Or, for that matter, if your sandal breaks just as you are heading out to greet the chief minister? For officers in the Indian Administrative Service- an elite few selected from among a few hundred thousand candidates in a year- such situations lurk right around the corner, every day, as do furtive mind games and power ...