Kanwar Yatra: Meet the real life ‘Shravan Kumars’, who carried their parents on shoulder for Kanwar Yatra. The four sons from Haryana's Panipat, participated in the Kanwar Yatra and carried their parents to Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli after visiting Uttarakhand's Haridwar on Sunday. The Kanwar Yatra is an annual pilgrimage for devotees of lord Shiva, known as Kanvarias or “Bhole", to Hindu pilgrimage places including Haridwar, Gaumukh and Gangotri and Sultanganj to fetch holy waters of Ganges River.