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Wide photograph of a fast, muddy river with a large crowd of bathers gathered along the pink-and-white stone ghat steps on the far bank. Many people, mostly men shirtless or in dhotis and some women in colourful saris and salwar, stand and wade at the water's edge; one child swims in the foreground. Above the ghat, multi-storey buildings, hoardings including a Nokia billboard, and trees line the hillside under an overcast sky. The scene is a river bathing ghat, with no visible a person figure or ritual setup.