{"id":262,"date":"2014-03-17T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/03\/kumbh-mela-documentaries.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T13:55:11","slug":"kumbh-mela-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/03\/kumbh-mela-documentaries.html","title":{"rendered":"Kumbh Mela Documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zvjVpQfA3mU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\"><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here\u2019s a trailer for a new documentary about the world\u2019s largest gathering of humanity which occurred in India last year in a religious festival called Kumbh Mela. The festival happens every twelve years at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers. Hindus believe that bathing in the water will wash away their sins and help bring salvation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/03\/kumbh-mela-week-at-largest-religious.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">As I wrote last year<\/a>, over 100,000,000 Hindus gathered there last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The documentary is called Faith Connections and was written and directed by Pan Nalin. It premiered in Toronto last fall and the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-24125635\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"> BBC gives it a good review here.<\/a>\u00a0 But it\u2019s two hours and way too long for a class.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 30 minute documentary below, called \u201cThe Holy Dip,\u201d \u00a0might be better and does a good job of reviewing the \u00a0festival and giving you an idea of its magnitude.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theindiansun.com.au\/top-story\/watch-kumbh-mela-abcs-compass-march-23-6-30pm\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">A third documentary with the same title<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiandownunder.com.au\/2014\/03\/the-holy-dip-with-mark-gould-on-march-23\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Holy Dip<\/a>\u201d will debut on Sunday, March 23, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/compass\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">ABC TV Compass<\/a> in Australia.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y2am_4nBzD4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe>&lt;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a trailer for a new documentary about the world\u2019s largest gathering of humanity which occurred in India last year in a religious festival called Kumbh Mela. 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Hindus believe that bathing in the water will wash away their sins and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kumbh Mela Documentaries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here&#039;s a trailer for a new documentary about the world&#039;s largest gathering of humanity which occurred in India last year in a religious festival called\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/03\/kumbh-mela-documentaries.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kumbh Mela Documentaries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#039;s a trailer for a new documentary about the world&#039;s largest gathering of humanity which occurred in India last year in a religious festival called\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/03\/kumbh-mela-documentaries.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"World Religions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-03-17T21:03:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-07-27T13:55:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/2014\/03\/kumbh-mela-2013.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"George G. 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