Ramkund, the sacred bathing spot on the Godavari river in Nashik where pilgrims take a dip and perform various rituals, has gone dry for the first time in 130 years due to acute water shortage.
Thousands of pilgrims expected to converge in Nashik for a holy dip on Gudi Padwa on April 8 — the first day of Chaitra month marking the beginning of the new year according to the lunisolar Hindu calendar — would therefore be unable to do so.
