PICTORIAL: 400 million pilgrims expected as Hindu festival opens in India

Large crowds of Hindu pilgrims in India bathed in sacred waters on Monday as the Kumbh Mela festival opened, with organisers expecting 400 million people — the largest gathering of humanity. The millennia-old Kumbh Mela, a show of religious piety and ritual bathing—and a logistical challenge of staggering proportions—is held at the site where the

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