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Kumbh Mela 2019: Kinnar Akhara with transgender sadhus make debut Millions of pilgrims began bathing on the first official day of India’s Kumbh Mela on Tuesday, the world’s largest religious festival.  Millions of pilgrims began bathing on the first official day of India’s  Kumbh Mela  on Tuesday, the world’s largest religious festival.  During the eight-week festival at Prayagraj in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, up to 150 million people, including a million foreign visitors, are expected to bathe at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna, and Saraswati. Devout Hindus believe bathing in the waters of the Ganges absolves people of sins and at the time of the Kumbh Mela, or the “festival of the pot”, it brings salvation from the cycle of life and death. Also Read:  Kumbh Mela 2019: Here's everything you need to know about world's largest religious festival First time in the history o f Kumbh Mela, the 'Kinnar Akhara' took the shahi sna...