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Describe a visit to a Hindu place of pilgrimage, explaining its importance to believers.
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R1 Describe a visit to a Hindu place of pilgrimage, explaining its importance to believers. The fireball of midday sun is high above in the azure sky. No clouds offer the refuge of shade and most of the trees have withered under the scorching, intense glare of the sun. In front of me, hundreds of people, all ages, shapes and sizes rush to the riverside. I stand at the bank of the most significant and cherished river of my faith, the Holy River Ganges. Different smells mingle together - spices, body odours, and rotting corpse. To an out-sider it seems like total chaos, but for me, it is like coming home. Masses of people tumble past to get to the river, slipping and sliding on the concrete Ghats (platforms or steps where pilgrimers bathe or people cremate bodies) and end up colliding with naked bodies bathing in the Ganges. On the roads, tradesmen and...
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