Organisers expect a staggering 400 million pilgrims will bathe during the six-week-long festival in the confluences of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, holy waters for Hindus. That creates a waste ...

"People say it's our job to clean the toilets, so why should they bother?" said Geeta Valmiki, who travelled nearly 200 kilometres (125 miles) to work at the festival for a daily wage of just over ...

Critical to the festival's running are the 5,000 workers hired just to clean the toilets -- and nearly all of them belong to the lower rungs of an age-old rigid social hierarchy that divides ...

Millions of pilgrims hoping to cleanse their sins by ritual baths at India's Kumbh Mela festival rely on key lavatory workers to clear up behind them -- those born on the lowest rung of the Hindu ...

The man, who kept the incident a secret from his family and partner, later went to the security desk to ask about his “lost phone” that he placed in the ceiling above the urinal at 11am that day.