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India's Kumbh Mela festival is a riot of color, movement and sound The Maha Kumbh Mela (great urn fair) is the greatest festival in the Hindu religious calendar -- a holy gathering at the confluence of India's Ganges and Yamuna rivers. Lasting 42 days, it is held every 12 years and brings together the faithful from across all India -- businessmen, priests, farmers, widows... It is rotated among four sites where a God on his way to heaven is believed to have accidentally spilled an urn containing the nectar of eternal life.
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