Workers fix a light post on the vast grounds receiving the millions of devotees that will congregate for the next couple of months to celebrate the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad on January 13, 2013. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images) (via Maha Kumbh Mela - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
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Indians feed birds from a boat on the River of Yamuna as it is enveloped by winter morning fog in New Delhi, India, Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) (via Daily Life Around the GlobePlog Photo Blog)
New Delhi — An Indian man sucks on a hose to pull water as a crowd gathers around a government tanker delivering drinking water because of short supply in running water taps. Many areas of the Indian capital are facing acute water shortage, a repeated annual phenomenon during summer when taps go dry as demand rises.
Indian Hindu pilgrims line up to enter the Amarnath cave to view the icy stalagmite representing Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, June 29, 2012. (Kevin Frayer/Associated Press) (via Amarnath: Journey to the shrine of a Hindu god - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
A young woman stumbles as she tries to carry a large basket of coal as they illegally scavenge at an open-cast mine in the village of Bokapahari, India, where a community of coal scavengers live and work. The contrast between India old and new is nowhere more vivid than among the villages of coal scavengers in eastern India, sitting on an apocalyptic landscape of smoke and fire from decades-old underground coal fires. While India grows ever more middle-class and awash in creature comforts, these villagers risk their lives scavenging coal illegally for a few dollars a day, and come back to homes that at any moment could be swallowed by a fresh fire-induced crack in the earth. (Kevin Frayer/AP) (via Coal - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
A boy stands amidst the evening rush on the main road. Due to the close-by Azadpur Mandi, India’s largest vegetable and fruit wholesale market, the area is an ideal ground for any kind of legal and illegal trafficking. (via Photos: Death for 50 Rupees | Plog — World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage — The Denver Post)
A man brushes his teeth with a Neem stick as others take their morning bath in the Ganges river during the Sonepur Mela on November 15, 2011 in Sonepur near Patna, India. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) (via In Focus: Sonepur India Cattle Fair | Plog — World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage — The Denver Post)
Indian youth make a human pyramid to break the “Dahi Handi.” (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press) (via Krishna Janmashtami - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
