Each year, at the onset of the monsoon, around half a million people gather together in Maharashtra, India, to participate in a unique pilgrimage that has an unbroken tradition of over 800 years. The wari tradition has been entirely a people’s initiative. The wari helps warkaris draw the Divine closer to the very essence of the soul, preparing the individual to return to daily life with a renewed sense of purpose. Wari – Pilgrimage of Joy carries the reader along this journey through narrative and images that brilliantly capture the most pertinent moments.