Governments in India have sometimes pulled off the efficient and compassionate management of the staggering public health problems of an event like the Kumbh. The Kumbh Mela is a historically documented site of the spread of contagion. Because, you know, ‘ Aastha/Faith’, that beloved article that makes the Supreme Court reward criminal trespass with a building plan, is also what makes the Governments of India and Uttarakhand do what they must to put people’s lives in danger on a grand scale. In consultation with the Akhil Bharatiya Akhada Parishad, they ‘advanced’ the date from 2022 to 2021 – knowing fully the dangers of the pandemic – because some astrological mumbo-jumbo told them that this was desirable. They could have used this time to create the conditions where holding an event like the Kumbh could have made some kind of sense, maybe, in 2022. So, not only did the Government of India, and the Government of Uttarakhand not cancel the Kumbh Mela, which they could easily have done, so as not to endanger the lives of millions of people by causing a super-spreader event for COVID-19 they also need not have let it take place this year at all, simply because this is the 11th, not the 12th year, since the last Kumbh Mela at Haridwar. I suggest none of you try it if you don’t want to give yourselves a headache. The calculative arcana of this ‘adjustment’ is beyond my capacity. This happens once every 83 years, and it happens because of the need to reconcile astrological configuration charts to calendrical years. It was ‘advanced’ by a year, to 2021, because the ‘astrological configurations’ of the ‘Sun entering Aries’ and ‘Jupiter entering Aquarius’ were available for 2021 this time. So how did it get advanced by one whole lethal year at a time India’s second Covid wave was expected? And when epidemiological studies indicate that second waves of infection are always worse than the first.
The actual due date for the ‘current’ Kumbh at Haridwar was 2022, not 2021.
The last Haridwar Kumbh Mela was held in 2010.
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