Every year, lakhs of warkaris (devotees) walk hundreds of kilometres across Maharashtra in the centuries-old Pandharpur Wari, a pilgrimage to the temple of Lord Vitthal, accompanied by the singing of ...

It’s 4 a.m., the sky, a deep indigo, is illuminated by fading stars and the air is crisp with the promise of dawn. The waris gear up to begin their annual 250 km yatra to the abode of Vithoba in ...