Security personnel checks devotees during the Gangasagar Mela in South Kolkata on Thursday, 12 January 2012. Some three hundred thousand Hindu pilgrims gathered at the Gangasagar Mela (Fair) to take a 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 being great religious significance in Hindu mythology.
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