New Delhi : The humanity of the Kumbh Mela, not just its divinity, got the spotlight at a book launch attended by intellectuals, IPS officers and judges at the Habitat Centre last Friday. What unfolded in the room wasn’t talk of abstract faith but anecdotes, images and even poetry about the power of Kumbh, including a story about an Israeli woman who came all the way to India to pray for peace.

“What does divinity look like when it takes human form?” asked Meenakshi Singh, an Indian Revenue Service officer and the author of Expressions of Divinity – Mahakumbh 2025 , a book of photographs that captures the sights and moments of a festival that comes to Prayagraj only once every 144 years and saw some 600 million people over 45 days in January and February.

Singh, currently serving as t

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