Indian workers clean in the month-long great bathing festival or Simhastha Mela in Ujjain, India. Thousands of pilgrims gathered in this holy city for the ritual dip in the River Kshipra which takes place once in 12 years. (Photo by Debajyoti Das/Pacific Press)

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