Gulls land on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India, in 2015. (Debal Sen) Sudipta Sen visited Himalayan pilgrim towns along the Ganges River with his family as a 4-year-old, and ingested small teaspoons ...
(Reuters) - Nearly half-a-million Hindus braved near-freezing waters of the Ganges river in northern India on Wednesday to wash their sins away on the first day of the six-week Ardh Kumbh Mela ...