Point of View | The Folk Mela Is Dead
The ideological abduction of the traditional Kumbh goes well beyond the cynical intrusion of the Sanghi temple project.
Driving over a road made of metal strips placed edge to edge on the banks of the receding river, the car's headlights illuminate an alarming image-a ten-armed Ganesh sits astride his faithful mouse-but the vaahan itself has been transformed into a vaahak, a sarathi with whip in hand, like Krishna of the Bhagavat Gita-and the chariot itself is the familiar one drawn by horses. It seems
