A 1974 handwritten letter by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs about his plans to go to Kumbh Mela was lately auctioned for ₹4.32 crore. The letter which was auctioned by Bonhams is addressed to his childhood good friend Tim Brown whereby he expressed his want to go to India for the Kumbh Mela which was to begin in April.
I’ve learn your letter many occasions
I have no idea what to say.
Many mornings have come and gone folks have got here and went
I’ve cherished and I’ve cried many occasions.
Someway, although, beneath all of it it would not change – do you perceive?
I’m now residing on a farm within the mountains between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz. I want to go to India for the Kumba Mela, which begins in April. I will probably be leaving someday in March, probably not sure but. Should you need, and I’m nonetheless right here while you arive, we will come up right here within the mountains collectively and you’ll inform me your ideas and emotions, which I didn’t absolutely perceive out of your letter.
There’s a hearth within the different room and I get chilly right here. I’ll finish by saying I don’t even know the place to start.
Although he by no means attended the Kumbh Mela, his spouse Laurene Jobs has now arrived in Uttar Pradesh’ Prayagraj to attend the Mahakumbh Mela on January 13. She was additionally given a Hindu identify “Kamala throughout a ceremonial occasion the place she carried out the ritual of ‘pattabhishek’ for non secular chief Vyasanand Giri Maharaj. Wearing a protracted white costume and an orange scarf, she engaged in prayers. It was additionally reported that she was sick with allergy symptoms on her second day on the Maha Kumbh 2025.
Religious chief Swami Kailashanand Giri had shared an replace saying, “She’s going to take part within the ritual of taking a dip (on the Sangam). She is resting in my ‘shivir’. Nevertheless, she has some allergy symptoms. She has by no means been to such a crowded place. She is kind of easy. She stayed with us through the pooja. Our custom is such that those that have by no means seen it – all of them need to be part of.
