STORY: Devotees took a holy bath in the sacred river and worshipped Goddess 'Ganga', as they wished for the prosperity and welfare of humankind. The festival commemorates the descent of the river on ...

Caleb Cain Marcus grew up hearing his parents’ stories about India. When he went there for the first time as a boy, he felt that the country was “soaked in spirituality and myth.” “Anything was ...

Small cradles of chrysanthemums, illuminated by a single candle, flicker in the moonlight, bobbing along the fast-flowing Ganges River. They are offerings. For hundreds of millions of Hindus around ...

Photographer Caleb Cain Marcus began his 1,500-mile pilgrimage along the the Ganges River amid the snow-capped peaks of Gangotri, India, a Hindu pilgrim town where the massive river originates as an ...

ROUND AND round the baggage carousel at London’s Heathrow airport goes a battered cardboard box waiting to be claimed by its owner, a passenger from Delhi: “PLEASE KEEP THIS SIDE UP! GANGA JAL—HOLLY ...