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Republic Day2007

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

and to secure to all its citizens:

JUSTICE, social, economic and political;

LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;

and to promote among them all

FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;

IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.

Swami and the cats

Sunset over the Sangam

the Sangam

KumbhNagari(city)

Boats

Is he lost??? or is he scared of the water?

is it usual for the children to get lost at one KumbhMela and get united with their family at another Kumbh, 12 years later....!( ..at least that is what Bollywood says)

The Holy Dip

This and that..@the Kumbh

A polluted river!

The Sangam is one of the most polluted spots of the Ganga...we worship the Ganga but at the same time...leather factories upstream (near Kanpur) have been pumping all their industrial waste into the river.......
.....together with that the human waste of
millions of pilgrims add to the misery of this river.
The Uttar Pradesh government was quick to react to the upsetting reports of a stinking river. .
They released water from the dam to flush out the garbage.
But this is not the long term solution!.....











Kallu Dom was summoned over the public address system in the peak hour of the festival to hide a floating corpse. The corpse had floated down to the Sangam and was sighted by some pilgrms, who carried on with their religious fervour after reporting it to the authorities.
Kallu promptly floated the corpse further downstream!

Women@SahiSnan @ArdhKumbhmela2007

Travelling to the ArdhKumbh2007