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Gangasagar Festival #49396699
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Hindu pilgrims to board buses to leave for the Gangasagar Mela in Kolkata, around 160 kms south of Kolkata on January 14, 2015. Sadhus and Hindu pilgrims from all over the country come for the annual Hindu holy festival Gangasagar Mela, with more than 400,000 Hindu pilgrims gathering at the Gangasagar to take a holy dip in the ocean at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, a holy day of the Hindu calendar considered to be of great religious significance in Hindu mythology
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