Students hold earthen pitchers filled with water as they take a holy bath ahead of the Magh Mela festival in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. The ceremony was organised to resemble the annual month-long religious festival held during the Hindu month of Magh, when thousands of Hindu devotees take a holy dip in the waters of the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati.

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