India Hindu pilgrims perform religious rituals on the beach at Gangasagar island, around 160 kms south of Kolkata. Sadhus and Hindu pilgrims from all over the country come for the annual Hindu holy festival Gangasagar Mela, 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. © Bhaskar Mallick/Pacific Press/Alamy Live News

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