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A photograph of a crowded riverside ghat in Haridwar with a wide muddy river in the foreground. Several men are bathing and wading, some shirtless or in shorts, with one man standing in the water holding a rope or chain. Devotees in dark clothing stand and sit on the stone steps, and a few people in white and dark clothes crouch at the water's edge on the right. Behind them rise pink-and-white temple structures, small shrine canopies, orange and blue tents, and a wooded hill under an overcast sky. Billboards for Nokia and Idea are visible above the steps. No speaker or a person candidate is visible in the scene.