The magic of India's Kumbh Mela

India is a land of spectacles, it is a land of teeming millions and a land of an ancient culture and civilisation. In my long years in India I have seen many spectacles but none so remarkable as the two Maha or Great Kumbh Melas which I attended. I have seen vast crowds assemble but none as big as the millions who flocked to the north Indian city of Allahabad to bathe at the confluence where the cloudy waters of the river...

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