Latifa (January 2019) Latifa was one of the first children we saw when we arrived back to the community this year. She was standing near a clump of other children beside the small temple just off the road where they like to gather to play. Her round, chubby toddler face was more defined. Her giant brown saucer-like eyes widened a little when she saw us walk toward her. She was dressed in a school uniform — a checked pinafore dress and white headband to keep her short hair awa

150 million people gathered in Prayagraj for the Kumbh Mela Last week we took a few days away from Mumbai to travel to Prayagraj, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, to wander among the enormous crowds of pilgrims and Sadhus at the Ardh Kumbh Mela, the largest peaceful gathering of people on earth. Millions of bedraggled families carrying provisions arrived to the Kumbh on crowded trains, overbooked planes and battered state buses, from every part of India to join the Sad