Gangasagar Mela
Image Calcutta 脗路 Jan 12 2012 12:00AM
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.