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Hindu pilgrims wait to perform religious prayers at the temple after taking a holy dip in the waters of Gangasagar island, around 160 kms south of Kolkata on January 14, 2014. Sadhus and Hindu piligrims from all over the country come for the annual Hindu holy festival Gangasagar Mela with more than four hundred thousand Hindu pilgrims gathering at the Gangasagar to take a 'holy 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 to be of great religious significance in Hindu mythology. AFP PHOTO/Dibyangshu SARKAR (Photo by Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP) (Photo by DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP via Getty Images)