At Prayagraj, more than 120m expected for festival as much about politics as sacred waters
From June last year, Dilip Trigunayak would stride out each morning to the banks of the Ganges and will the holy waters to recede. The clock was ticking. In six months, the floodplains where he stood would be the site of the largest human gathering in the world, probably ever.
“I would watch the water levels going up and down,” the bureaucrat says. “From then my anxiety started.”
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