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The biggest gathering on Earth

Billed as the biggest gathering on Earth around 8 million gathered for the first day of Kumbh Mela 2013 in Allahabad, India. The festival, every 12 years, will last for 55 days and it’s estimated around 100 million people will attend.

In this extract Radio Leicester’s Kamlesh Purohit speaks to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ cameraman Bhaskar Solanki, who was at Kumbh Mela in 2001...

Image by Geeta Pandey - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News Online, India.

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