Nishant Kushla traveled up the Ganges to its source in the Himalays, where thousands of sadhus lives alone in huts and caves along the river. Searching for moksa, which frees them from illusion and allows them to become one with the universe, the Hindu sadhus, Sanskrit for “holy man,” renounce worldly life, withdrawing from society to devote themselves to prayer, meditation and sexual abstinence.
Nishant Kushla was born in 1982. He holds a master’s degree in photography from the University of West London. He lives and works in Bombay.
Sybile Girault
