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World’s largest single gathering of humanity...
January 17, 2019 at 4:33 am
Starting Tuesday, tens of millions of Hindu devotees in India will gather to wash their sins away on the banks of the Ganges River in a festival known as the Kumbh Mela. The tradition, which dates back over a millennia, is billed as the world's largest gathering of humanity
. Through March 4, an estimated 120 million people will flock to the northern city of Prayagraj to bathe at the Sangam, a confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the Saraswati rivers, BBC reports. By comparison, that’s almost 14 times the population of New York City
http://time.com/5501801/india-kumbh-mela-2019/
How to plan a festival for 100m people
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46834335
Wherein both will be those (maidens) restraining their glances upon their husbands, whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna (has opened their hymens with sexual intercourse) before them (Quran 55:56, Mushin)
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RE: World’s largest single gathering of humanity...
January 17, 2019 at 9:16 am
The smell must be unimaginable.
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RE: World’s largest single gathering of humanity...
January 17, 2019 at 10:00 am
Isn't the Ganges the 6th most polluted and hazardous rivers on Earth for humans to exist near?
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RE: World’s largest single gathering of humanity...
January 17, 2019 at 10:25 am
All I can think of is "flesh eating bacteria".
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RE: World’s largest single gathering of humanity...
January 17, 2019 at 10:56 am
Hope that stock the river with lots of tilapia.
And a few candiru, just for fun. (yeah, yeah, myth......... let me have some fun)
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RE: World’s largest single gathering of humanity...
January 17, 2019 at 11:38 am
Bathing is fine, if you live in Devprayag.
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RE: World’s largest single gathering of humanity...
January 17, 2019 at 12:22 pm
I wonder what the carbon footprint of this prodigious and hazardous waste of time might be...
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RE: World’s largest single gathering of humanity...
January 17, 2019 at 12:55 pm
I just hope there won’t be a crush of people in chokepoints, as they seem to happen often with these human migrations.
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