KHUMB MELA ALLAHABAD 2013


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Mundana ceremony, shaving the head
Giving up vanity


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Villagers of local state
Uttar Pradesh


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Solitary pilgrim


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Pilgrims preparing to bathe


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Daily at sunrise


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Preparing ritual
Surrounded by burning upale (cow dung)


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Holy man and his intense devotees


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Visiting baba looking for compass bearing
from the pilot


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Sadhus of Uttar Pradesh
at the Pilot Baba ashram


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Sadhus of Uttar Pradesh
at the Pilot Baba ashram


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Sadhus of Uttar Pradesh
at the Pilot Baba ashram


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The younger generation at
Pilot Baba camp


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Joined by a sanyasin


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Pilgrims resting
Music from loudspeakers nearby played 24hrs


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Sadhus, pilgrims and attendants resting
on straw & hessian bags


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Sadhu well known for his physical strength


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Able to swing these stone balls behind him
No one else in the camp could


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Daily news


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"funny little naked brown man"
Day trippers


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Pilgrim at sunrise


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Early morning start


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Pilgrims depart


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Going home