Viewfinder: Magh Mela Festival in India - Pacific Standard

Viewfinder: The Magh Mela Festival in India

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: Jan 10, 2018

An Indian sadhu performs evening prayer at Sangam during the Magh Mela festival in Allahabad on January 9th, 2018. — An Indian sadhu performs evening prayer at Sangam during the Magh Mela festival in Allahabad on January 9th, 2018. The Magh Mela is held every year on the banks of Triveni Sangam—the confluence of the three great rivers—Ganga, Yamuna, and the Saraswati—in Prayag near Allahabad during the Hindu month of Magh, which corresponds to mid-January through mid-February.
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Aymara indigenous people perform traditional Andes highlands folk dances during the Anata Andino harvest festival in Oruro, Bolivia, on February 8th, 2018. During the harvest festival, native peasant farmers from different Bolivian highlands communities dance in the streets of Oruro giving thanks to Pachamama (Mother Earth) for the abundant crops.

Aymara indigenous people perform traditional Andes highlands folk dances during the Anata Andino harvest festival in Oruro, Bolivia, on February 8th, 2018.

An Indian laborer works in a brick kiln on the outskirts of Amritsar on April 30th, 2018, ahead of International Labor Day.

An Indian laborer works in a brick kiln on the outskirts of Amritsar on April 30th, 2018, ahead of International Labor Day.

People fly kites during the 32nd International Kite Festival at the beach of Berck-sur-Mer, northern France, on April 18th, 2018. The festival takes place until April 22nd, 2018.

People fly kites during the 32nd International Kite Festival at the beach of Berck-sur-Mer, northern France, on April 18th, 2018.

Rescue personnel carry children on their shoulders through flood waters during a rescue operation in Annamanada, a village in India, on August 19th, 2018. Rescuers waded into submerged villages in a desperate search for survivors cut off for days by floods that have already killed more than 350 people.

Rescue personnel carry children on their shoulders through flood waters during a rescue operation in Annamanada, a village in India, on August 19th, 2018.

Indian commuters travel in a truck to a safer place as flood waters ravage the National Highway 47 in the Ernakulam district of Kochi, in the Southern Indian state of Kerala, on August 16th, 2018. According to the BBC, the death toll from floods in Kerala rose to over 100 on August 16th as torrential rainfall threatened new areas.

Indian commuters travel in a truck to a safer place as flood waters ravage the National Highway 47 in the Ernakulam district of Kochi, in the Southern Indian state of Kerala, on August 16th, 2018.

Indian laborers excavate sand from the dry riverbed of Sabarmati river near Gandhinagar, India, on March 15th, 2018. The Gujarat government, in order to thwart water scarcity, have stopped Narmada Canal water flow for irrigation.

Indian laborers excavate sand from the dry riverbed of Sabarmati river near Gandhinagar, India, on March 15th, 2018.

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