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Women and religious rituals in the Ganges #114493150
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The religious sentiment defines Varanasi, a sacred city for Hindus. The early hours of the morning are for prayer and purification. A group of women, on an islet in the midst of the Ganges, are inside the water in a ritual to purify themselves, three others are about to enter. In the background, buildings that were one day majestic, and now very deteriorated, along the shore from where steps, the ghats, descend to the water. There hundreds of Hindus enter the sacred water of the Ganges
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